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The prefectural government of Gifu, central Japan, said Saturday that a highly pathogenic outbreak of avian influenza was reported at a chicken farm in the city of Minokamo.
The prefectural government of Gifu, central Japan, said Saturday that a highly pathogenic outbreak of avian influenza was reported at a chicken farm in the city of Minokamo.
This is the first time a farm outbreak of this form of bird flu has been recorded this season in the prefecture. Thus, the 14th Japanese prefecture to report such an outbreak became Gifu. All of the chickens on the Minokamo farm, 68,000 in total, will be culled.
The prefectural government will urge farms not to move their chickens or eggs within a 3-kilometer radius of the affected farm.
On Friday, the prefectural government received a notice from the Minokamo farm of a potential outbreak and obtained positive results through simple testing.
From all samples obtained from chickens at the farm, polymerase chain reaction tests performed later identified an H5 subtype virus.
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