(1)Ban on Kyoto farm shipments over bird flu lifted

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada announced on April 13 that the Kyoto prefectural government lifted a ban at April 12 midnight on shipments of chickens and eggs by poultry farms located within 5 kilometers of a farm where an outbreak of bird flu occurred in February.

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