China News Service, November 26. According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), on the 25th, a chicken farm in Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan experienced an avian influenza epidemic. About 140,000 chickens on the farm will be culled. .
According to reports, that morning, the manager of this chicken farm reported to the local government that more than a dozen chickens died in the chicken farm.
Hyogo Prefecture then sent a quarantine team to the chicken farm, and the H5 subtype avian influenza virus was detected in one of the chickens.
According to the report, due to the high fatality rate of this virus, virus samples have been sent to the quarantine agency directly under the Japanese central government for detailed analysis.
In addition, Hyogo Prefecture has decided to implement a complete eradication of chicken farms where the epidemic has occurred, and culling all the approximately 146,000 chickens in the chicken farm.
In order to prevent the spread of infection, Hyogo Prefecture has set a 3 km radius of the chicken farm involved as a restricted movement area, prohibiting bringing chickens or eggs in and out; setting a 3 to 10 km radius as a restricted movement area , It is forbidden to take chickens out of this area.
According to reports, this is the first bird flu outbreak in Hyogo Prefecture.
Governor Toshizo Ido said, "We will take complete measures to prevent the epidemic from spreading further."
Recently, Japan has experienced successive outbreaks of bird flu.
On November 5, November 11, and November 13, an H5 avian influenza epidemic occurred in Mitutoyo City, Kagawa Prefecture; on November 7, an H5 avian influenza epidemic also occurred in Higashikagawa City, Kagawa Prefecture.