Japan confirms bird flu at Kyoto chicken farm

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Kurimoto, chief of the Health Administration Section at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, speaks to reporters at the ministry Feb. 29 about the discovery of bird flu virus in samples from a Kyoto Prefecture farm where 67,000 chickens have died over the past week.

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