As of this Monday, a record number of 56 sources of infection have been confirmed in 23 of Japan’s 47 prefectures.
Japan has sacrificed about 10 million birds in poultry farms since last October, a record number, to contain avian flu, as reported by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture on Monday.
The number of culls shot up to 9.98 million after the prefecture of ibaraki (northeast of Tokyo) will also announce today that it has started to slaughter nearly 930,000 chickens at a farm in the city of shirosato when a test confirms the presence of the virus.
The previous record It was at 9.87 million birds in the season from November 2020 to March 2021, according to data from said ministry.
Until this Monday, a record of 56 sources of infection in 23 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, after the first case was detected last October at a poultry farm in Japan Prefecture. okayama (western Japan).
The first outbreak in the region of Kanto (center) occurred last November, when the Japanese authorities ordered the slaughter of about a million chickens from various farms also in the prefecture of ibaraki.
The cases this season include the sacrifice of some 430 emus in the prefecture of Fukuoka (South) and it is believed that they could be motivated by the influence of migratory birds in said farms.