Workers prepare to cull chickens at bird flu-infected Miyazaki farm

Workers prepare to cull chickens at bird flu-infected Miyazaki farm

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Workers prepare to cull chicken in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Jan. 26, a day after the government determined that chickens at a local farm had been infected by the highly virulent H5 variety of the bird flu virus. This marks the second outbreak of bird flu in a month in Japan's top chicken breeding prefecture.

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