Bird flu (H5) has been discovered in Nankan, northern Kumamoto. About 50 chickens have died. According, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, the prefecture has decided to cull about 107,000 chickens within a 10 kilometer radius of the farm where the disease was discovered. The article doesn’t say anything about the possibility of spread to humans but I assume that this aggressive response will significantly reduce that danger.
– Kirk
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