Chicken culling begins after bird flu detected in southwestern Japan

Chicken culling begins after bird flu detected in southwestern Japan

Authorities head to a poultry farm in Kijo, Miyazaki Prefecture around 11:50 p.m. on Jan. 24, 2017, to cull thousands of chickens there, after some dead chickens at the farm were found to have contracted a highly virulent strain of bird flu. Miyazaki has the largest number of broiler chickens among Japan's 47 prefectures with about 27.4 million as of February 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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