Japan confirms fresh H5 bird flu outbreak: Kyodo

[Gert van der Hoek]

Japan confirms fresh H5 bird flu outbreak

25 Jan 2007 10:36:09 GMT


TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday confirmed another case of the H5 bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki, a farm ministry official said.

But further tests were needed to confirm if the virus, which had killed more than 1,000 birds, was H5N1, she added.

Tests had so far confirmed the presence of H5 subtype influenza at the farm.

Earlier this month, Japan suffered its first outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in poultry in more than three years.

No cases of human infection have been reported.

The Agriculture Ministry said in a statement that it had ordered poultry at the farm to be killed and the site to be disinfected. Movement of people and goods within a 10 km (6 miles) radius of the farm was to be restricted, it added.

In 2004, Japan had four H5N1 poultry outbreaks between January and March, including one in Kyoto in western Japan in which 240,000 chickens were culled and 20 million eggs destroyed.

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[HenryN]

Re: Japan confirms fresh H5 bird flu outbreak: Kyodo

There is little doubt that this will also be Qinghai H5N1.

 

[HenryN]

Re: Japan confirms fresh H5 bird flu outbreak: Kyodo

There is little doubt that this will also be Qinghai H5N1.

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TOKYO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese agriculture ministry on Thursday confirmed that the virus detected in the second case in a month of birds' mass death in Miyazaki Prefecture is the highly virulent H5 strain of the bird flu virus.
The result was based on a test by the National Institute of Animal Health in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, which will further analyze the virus sample to determine if it was the lethal H5N1 type, Kyodo News reported.
About 1,300 birds died in mass from Monday to Wednesday at a farm in the city of Hyuga. It was the second bird flu case in a month in the prefecture and the sixth in Japan since 2004. Earlier this month, a farm in the town of Kiyotake, 60 kilometers away from Hyuga, saw 3,500 of its birds killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu and had all of its 12,000 birds incinerated. Bird flu infections hit dozens of farms in central Japan's Ibaraki prefecture in 2005 and 2006, resulting in the killing of at least 5.8 million poultry.
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