Ibaraki begins culling chickens at bird flu-hit farm

MITSUKAIDO, Japan - Workers cover a poultry farm with sheet on June 27 in Mitsukaido, Ibaraki Prefecture, where chickens were found infected by the H5N2 virus, a weak strain of avian influenza. The Ibaraki prefectural government began culling the entire stock of about 25,000 chickens at the farm.

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