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Fri, 01/28/2011 - 17:47
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More chickens tested positive for bird flu in Miyazaki Pref
MIYAZAKI, Japan, Jan. 28 Kyodo -The bird flu epidemic may be spreading in Miyazaki Prefecture after chickens were tested positive for a highly pathogenic avian flu virus Friday in two more locations.
In what could be the season's fourth and fifth outbreak in the prefecture, chickens at poultry farms in Nobeoka and Kawaminami were tested positive for bird flu in preliminary examinations.
The Nobeoka poultry farm found six of its chickens had died recently, while the Kawaminami farm had more than 400 chickens die after exhibiting specific symptoms. The local government has decided to cull about 92,000 birds at the Kawaminami farm and conduct a detailed investigation.
Meanwhile, all the 31,000 chickens at a poultry farm in Tsuno in the prefecture and its nearby affiliated meat-processing center were culled after 186 chickens shipped from the farm were found dead Thursday.
These outbreaks at poultry farms follow the season's first case last November in Shimane Prefecture, outbreaks in Miyazaki Prefecture confirmed over the weekend in the city of Miyazaki and the town of Shintomi, and those earlier this week in Kagoshima and Aichi prefectures.
The Japanese farm ministry has decided to order the Miyazaki prefectural government to report the number of dead chickens at poultry farms every day for the time being.
The prefectural government was found Friday to have skipped on-the-spot checks last year by its sanitary officials at the farm in the city of Miyazaki, which was the prefecture's first case of the avian flu outbreak.
Earlier, the prefectural government went on record as saying it had conducted on-the-spot inspections at the farm. But actually, it allowed officials from the farm's affiliated company to carry out the checks on its behalf.
Inspections by the central government after the outbreak showed a number of holes in the farm's bird net, which is intended to prevent wild birds from entering the poultry houses. Cases indicating that the highly virulent H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading across Japan have been confirmed since last October.
The Miyazaki prefectural government said its own sanitary officials checked only one-fourth of the 984 poultry farms with 100 chickens or more that were inspected last year at the direction of the central government due to a shortage of staff.
Miyazaki suffered huge losses last year due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that resulted in the culling of about 290,000 cows and pigs.
==Kyodo
2011-01-28 23:03:32
In what could be the season's fourth and fifth outbreak in the prefecture, chickens at poultry farms in Nobeoka and Kawaminami were tested positive for bird flu in preliminary examinations.
The Nobeoka poultry farm found six of its chickens had died recently, while the Kawaminami farm had more than 400 chickens die after exhibiting specific symptoms. The local government has decided to cull about 92,000 birds at the Kawaminami farm and conduct a detailed investigation.
Meanwhile, all the 31,000 chickens at a poultry farm in Tsuno in the prefecture and its nearby affiliated meat-processing center were culled after 186 chickens shipped from the farm were found dead Thursday.
These outbreaks at poultry farms follow the season's first case last November in Shimane Prefecture, outbreaks in Miyazaki Prefecture confirmed over the weekend in the city of Miyazaki and the town of Shintomi, and those earlier this week in Kagoshima and Aichi prefectures.
The Japanese farm ministry has decided to order the Miyazaki prefectural government to report the number of dead chickens at poultry farms every day for the time being.
The prefectural government was found Friday to have skipped on-the-spot checks last year by its sanitary officials at the farm in the city of Miyazaki, which was the prefecture's first case of the avian flu outbreak.
Earlier, the prefectural government went on record as saying it had conducted on-the-spot inspections at the farm. But actually, it allowed officials from the farm's affiliated company to carry out the checks on its behalf.
Inspections by the central government after the outbreak showed a number of holes in the farm's bird net, which is intended to prevent wild birds from entering the poultry houses. Cases indicating that the highly virulent H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading across Japan have been confirmed since last October.
The Miyazaki prefectural government said its own sanitary officials checked only one-fourth of the 984 poultry farms with 100 chickens or more that were inspected last year at the direction of the central government due to a shortage of staff.
Miyazaki suffered huge losses last year due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that resulted in the culling of about 290,000 cows and pigs.
==Kyodo
2011-01-28 23:03:32
