Japan: Highly pathogenic bird flu confirmed in Hokkaido poultry for 1st time

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Highly pathogenic bird flu confirmed in Hokkaido for 1st time
National Dec. 17, 2016 - 06:45AM JST ( 3 )

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The Hokkaido prefectural government on Friday announced the first case of a highly virulent strain of bird flu virus in poultry in Japan?s northernmost island prefecture.

With a highly pathogenic H5 strain confirmed in a detailed analysis, the Hokkaido government will begin Saturday culling around 210,000 chickens at the poultry farm in the town of Shimizu.

Earlier Friday, about 30 chickens were found dead at the farm and five tested positive for bird flu, as well as two living chickens, in a preliminary test...

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Japan's Hokkaido culls 210,000 chicken following outbreak of bird flu

TOKYO, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) --

Japan's Hokkaido prefecture began culling on Saturday some 210,000 chicken at a poultry farm where highly pathogenic bird flu strain had been detected.

This is the first time that bird flu has been detected in poultry in the northernmost prefecture of Japan.

Some 30 chicken at the farm in the town of Shimizu were found dead Friday, and 7 of them were found positive for bird flu in a preliminary test. Further tests confirmed the presence of a highly contagious H5 strain.

Local government has ordered all the 210, 000 chicken kept at the farm to be culled and farms within 10 kilometers to stop transporting poultry.

Seven poultry farms are keeping about 192,000 chicken within a 10-kilometer radius of the farm in question.
Over 60 bird flu cases have been reported around Japan this winter, the most in history, with highly pathogenic bird flu strain detected in wild birds, poultry as well as birds kept in zoos.

A total of about 570,000 chicken have been culled at poultry farms in the prefectures of Aomori and Niigata in Japan since November due to the spreading of bird flu virus.

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Japan confirmed that the avian influenza virus medical personnel arrived farm surveys
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Local time on December 17, 2016, the Japanese Shimizu, a local farm confirmed highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus, medical personnel arrived at the farm survey. Kyodo News / Vision Chinahttp://translate.googleusercontent.c...sZIDGRffZa-GeA

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Bird flu Delayed in disposal due to cold and snow Hokkaido

December 19th at 7:21

In Hokkaido Shimizu Town, where avian influenza virus was confirmed on 16th this month, the chicken at the poultry farm has been disposed of to prevent the spread of infection, but the work is behind schedule due to coldness and snow. Works to fill the ground are being carried out in parallel while strengthening the position.

Since avian influenza virus was detected in the poultry farm of Shimizu town in Hokkaido on the 16th of this month from about 30 dead chickens, the road began work to dispose about 210,000 chickens from 17th.

According to the guidelines of the country, it is requested to kill within 24 hours from the time when infection with highly pathogenic virus was confirmed, but work is delayed due to coldness and snow.

For this reason, we have increased the number of workers by about 300 people and have done with about 1,000 people, but according to the way, if we do not finish by the deadline, only about 150,000 birds could be killed at 10 pm on 18th That means that.

Work is continued throughout the night, and from around 7 am on the 19th, work is carried out to fill the ground with chickens that the nation decided to be within 72 hours from confirmation in parallel.

The deadline is 10:30 pm on the 19th, but the road will be inspected around the poultry farm as soon as all disposal is over, and if the infection is not confirmed to expand, it will be within 10 kilometers radius this month It is policy to cancel the movement restriction of chicken and eggs of poultry farm inhttp://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2016...811681000.html