Ibaraki begins culling chickens at bird flu-hit farm

Ibaraki begins culling chickens at bird flu-hit farm

TOKYO, Japan - Ibaraki prefectural government officials disinfect chicken houses at a farm in Mitsukaido, Ibaraki Prefecture on June 27, a day after announcing that chickens there had been infected by the H5N2 virus, a weak strain of avian influenza.

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