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Japan Authorities Begin Culling Following Bird Flu Outbreaks Strike Japanese Farms

Japanese authorities have started culling about 50,000 chickens on Sunday (Jan 5) following a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.

According to the agriculture ministry, it is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan.

The latest farm reported increasing deaths of fowl, and test results confirmed Sunday that bird flu was the cause, the ministry added.

It prompted the culling of 50,000 chickens there, the regional Iwate government said.

Iwate also banned the movements of 170,000 birds kept at two other farms within a three-kilometre (1.86-mile) radius.

Some 3.8 million birds kept within 10 kilometres of the infected farm are to stay inside the zone for now.

On Thursday, another farm in Iwate and a firm in the central Aichi region were hit by the virus and began killing their 120,000 and 147,000 birds respectively.

On December 29, an outbreak was confirmed at a farm in eastern Ibaraki, resulting in the killing of 1.08 million birds there.

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