More than a million chicken to be slaughtered in central Japan due to bird flu outbreak

Authorities in Tokyo's neighboring Ibaraki prefecture have decided to destroy more than 1.1 million chickens at a local farm due to a new outbreak of bird flu. This was reported by the Kyodo agency on Friday. It is noted that mass infection was detected at a poultry farm in the city of Yatio. Subdivisions of the country's Self-Defense Forces will be connected to the slaughter of chickens. This season, about 60 outbreaks of bird flu have already been recorded in more than 20 prefectures throughout Japan. As a result, it was decided to slaughter more than 11 million ...