Bird flu hits endangered cranes in Japan

IZUMI, Japan - Staff from a crane preservation group in protective suits feed cranes in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2010, as flocks of cranes fly overhead. A hooded crane found in Japan's largest crane wintering place in the southwestern prefecture was confirmed as having been infected with an H5N1 strain of highly infectious avian influenza the previous day.

Bird flu hits endangered cranes in Japan

IZUMI, Japan - Staff from a crane preservation group in protective suits feed cranes in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2010. A hooded crane found in Japan's largest crane wintering place in the southwestern prefecture was confirmed as having been infected with an H5N1 strain of highly infectious avian influenza the previous day.

Akita inspects chicken farms over deadly avian flu virus

AKITA, Japan - Health officials inspect a chicken farm near Lake Towada in Akita on April 30 after the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected in dead swans found in the lakeside town Kosaka on April 21.

Central, local gov'ts hold drill to deal with potential new flu

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Twenty central government ministries and agencies and the Tokushima prefectural government jointly held a drill Feb. 5 to deal with a potential outbreak of a new form of influenza in Japan. In the exercise, a man is taken to a hospital room in a special wheel chair after contracting a new type of flu that mutatated from an H5N1-type bird flu virus. In the scenario, the man was infected while traveling overseas and returned to Tokushima Prefecture, where the infection spread.

Peru declares state of health emergency due to H5N1 virus outbreak

STORY: Peru declares state of health emergency due to H5N1 virus outbreak DATELINE: Dec. 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:07 LOCATION: Lima CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of dead birds 2. various of views of Peru STORYLINE: Peru's National Agricultural Health Agency declared a 90-day nationwide health emergency on Wednesday after confirming the first outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in a poultry farm. The agency said the measure is aimed at strengthening the monitoring and control of avian influenza, as well as eliminating possible outbreaks and preventing their spread to other parts of the country. It has also banned the transport of live poultry from detected outbreaks and birds without health certificates, as well as fairs and poultry events. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Lima. (XHTV)

S.Korea confirms 1st case of bird flu in 6 months

STORY: S.Korea confirms 1st case of bird flu in 6 months DATELINE: Oct. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:20 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of disinfectant workers in protective white uniforms at disinfection post (courtesy of Yonhap TV) 2. various of infected farm (courtesy of Yonhap TV) 3. various of disinfectant workers in protective clothing and face masks, shuttling and burying dead ducks (courtesy of Yonhap TV) STORYLINE: South Korea on Wednesday confirmed the first case of bird flu at a duck farm in around six months, the agriculture ministry said. The highly pathogenic avian influenza case was confirmed at the duck farm in the southeastern county of Yecheon, about 160 km southeast of the capital Seoul, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The latest case of bird flu was reported here in April this year. Precautionary measures to prevent the H5N1 virus spread were underway, including the culling of some 9,800 ducks raised at the farm, the entrance control

BELGIUM-BIRD FLU-H5N1

(220331) -- BRUSSELS, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A notice written in French and Dutch meaning "Due to avian flu, free-range eggs temporarily come from free-range hens in compulsory confinement" is seen as boxes of eggs are placed on the shelf in a supermarket in Brussels, Belgium, March 29, 2022. An outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been detected in a poultry farm in Meulebeke in the province of West Flanders, Belgium, according to an official report published Wednesday by the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (AFSCA). (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

ISRAEL-MARGALIOT-BIRD FLU-EGGS-DISPOSAL

(220103) -- MARGALIOT, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli worker disposes chicken eggs at a quarantined farm in a northern Israeli village of Margaliot, Jan. 3, 2022. Israel has detected an outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a northern village, the state's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement on Monday. In recent weeks, the virus has been detected in dozens of chicken and turkey coops in northern and southern Israel, leading to the killing of hundreds of thousands of hens, and a shortage of eggs in the country. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-MARGALIOT-BIRD FLU-EGGS-DISPOSAL

(220103) -- MARGALIOT, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli worker disposes chicken eggs at a quarantined farm in a northern Israeli village of Margaliot, Jan. 3, 2022. Israel has detected an outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a northern village, the state's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement on Monday. In recent weeks, the virus has been detected in dozens of chicken and turkey coops in northern and southern Israel, leading to the killing of hundreds of thousands of hens, and a shortage of eggs in the country. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-MARGALIOT-BIRD FLU-EGGS-DISPOSAL

(220103) -- MARGALIOT, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli worker disposes chicken eggs at a quarantined farm in a northern Israeli village of Margaliot, Jan. 3, 2022. Israel has detected an outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a northern village, the state's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement on Monday. In recent weeks, the virus has been detected in dozens of chicken and turkey coops in northern and southern Israel, leading to the killing of hundreds of thousands of hens, and a shortage of eggs in the country. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-MARGALIOT-BIRD FLU-EGGS-DISPOSAL

(220103) -- MARGALIOT, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chicken eggs are disposed at a quarantined farm in a northern Israeli village of Margaliot, Jan. 3, 2022. Israel has detected an outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a northern village, the state's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement on Monday. In recent weeks, the virus has been detected in dozens of chicken and turkey coops in northern and southern Israel, leading to the killing of hundreds of thousands of hens, and a shortage of eggs in the country. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-MARGALIOT-BIRD FLU-EGGS-DISPOSAL

(220103) -- MARGALIOT, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Israeli workers dispose chicken eggs at a quarantined farm in a northern Israeli village of Margaliot, Jan. 3, 2022. Israel has detected an outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a northern village, the state's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement on Monday. In recent weeks, the virus has been detected in dozens of chicken and turkey coops in northern and southern Israel, leading to the killing of hundreds of thousands of hens, and a shortage of eggs in the country. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(220103) -- HULA VALLEY, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Rangers wearing personal protective equipment retrieve dead cranes in the Hula Valley Nature Reserve, northern Israel, Jan. 2, 2022. The Hula Nature Reserve has been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(220103) -- HULA VALLEY, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Rangers wearing personal protective equipment retrieve dead cranes in the Hula Valley Nature Reserve, northern Israel, Jan. 2, 2022. The Hula Nature Reserve has been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(220103) -- HULA VALLEY, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A ranger wearing personal protective equipment retrieves a dead crane in the Hula Valley Nature Reserve, northern Israel, Jan. 2, 2022. The Hula Nature Reserve has been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(220103) -- HULA VALLEY, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Rangers wearing personal protective equipment retrieve dead cranes in the Hula Valley Nature Reserve, northern Israel, Jan. 2, 2022. The Hula Nature Reserve has been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(220103) -- HULA VALLEY, Jan. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Rangers wearing personal protective equipment retrieve dead cranes in the Hula Valley Nature Reserve, northern Israel, Jan. 2, 2022. The Hula Nature Reserve has been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(211230) -- HULA VALLEY, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- A flock of cranes are seen in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, on Dec. 30, 2021. The Hula Nature Reserve and Hula Lake park have been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(211230) -- HULA VALLEY, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- A crane is seen in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, on Dec. 30, 2021. The Hula Nature Reserve and Hula Lake park have been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

ISRAEL-HULA VALLEY-BIRD FLU

(211230) -- HULA VALLEY, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- A dead crane is seen in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, on Dec. 30, 2021. The Hula Nature Reserve and Hula Lake park have been closed to the public to prevent the spread of pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to local media. (Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dutch Farmers Ordered To Keep Poultry Inside To Limit Bird Flu Contagion

Chickens has been inside a chicken shed for 12 hours since today. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten is introducing a national obligation to keep all companies that keep commercial poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu. The confinement obligation came into effect at 12 noon, the ministry reports. A highly contagious variant of bird flu (H5), which leads to serious illness or death in birds, was found at a poultry farm in Zeewolde. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands on October 26, 2021. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (C), clad in a happi coat, samples grilled chicken at a Miyazaki products fair at a hotel in Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Jan. 25 to demonstrate that Miyazaki-bred chicken are safe for consumption. More than 1,300 chickens have died at a chicken farm in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, this week, after another chicken farm in the prefecture was infected by the deadly H5N1 bird flu earlier this month. (Kyodo)

Central, local gov'ts hold drill to deal with potential new flu

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Twenty central government ministries and agencies and the Tokushima prefectural government jointly held a drill Feb. 5 to deal with a potential outbreak of a new form of influenza in Japan. In the exercise, a man is taken to a hospital room in a special wheel chair after contracting a new type of flu that mutatated from an H5N1-type bird flu virus. In the scenario, the man was infected while traveling overseas and returned to Tokushima Prefecture, where the infection spread.(Kyodo)

Bird flu hits endangered cranes in Japan

IZUMI, Japan - Staff from a crane preservation group in protective suits feed cranes in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2010. A hooded crane found in Japan's largest crane wintering place in the southwestern prefecture was confirmed as having been infected with an H5N1 strain of highly infectious avian influenza the previous day. (Kyodo)

Bird flu hits endangered cranes in Japan

IZUMI, Japan - Staff from a crane preservation group in protective suits feed cranes in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2010, as flocks of cranes fly overhead. A hooded crane found in Japan's largest crane wintering place in the southwestern prefecture was confirmed as having been infected with an H5N1 strain of highly infectious avian influenza the previous day. (Kyodo)

(1)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) personnel prepare to bury culled chickens at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, March 8. The bird flu virus detected at the Funai farm is the highly virulent H5N1 strain. The farm had about 250,000 chickens before the outbreak last month. Photo provided by GSDF. (Kyodo)