Ibaraki begins culling chickens at bird flu-hit farm

MITSUKAIDO, Japan - A health official from the Ibaraki prefectural government disposes of culled chickens at a farm in Mitsukaido, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 27. The prefectural government culled the entire stock of about 25,000 chickens at the farm, where chickens had been found infected by the H5N2 virus, a weak strain of avian influenza.