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The Japanese authorities have ordered to slaughter more than 320 thousand birds after detecting new cases of highly contagious avian influenza in several farms of the north of the country, in what is the first case of this type in almost two years.
Infected birds, several ducks and chickens in which the H5 strain of the virus have been detected, were found in the prefectures of Aomori in the north and Niigata in the northwest, a spokesman for the Japanese Ministry of Environment confirmed.
The Aomori authorities decided in an emergency meeting on Monday night to sacrifice the approximately 16,500 birds on the farm in 24 hours after finding the bird flu virus in five dead and five whose health was weakened, according to figures Collected by the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
The local government has also banned four poultry farms located within a three-kilometer radius of the affected facility carrying chickens or eggs and has vetoed shipments from three other farms located within a 10-kilometer radius of the area.
The authorities in Niigata (northwest) have ordered the slaughter of some 310,000 birds after four dozen dead birds were found on the eve and the virus was detected in five of them at a center in the town of Sekikawa. , A security perimeter within a radius of 10 kilometers.
About 500,000 birds are stored in about 60 farms located on the site around the Niigata farm, while seven facilities hold more than 400,000 animals in Aomori, according to local data.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today ordered the relevant ministries and agencies, which held a meeting early in the morning, and coordinate to establish the necessary quarantine measures.
“Several cases have been confirmed in neighboring countries, especially in wild birds, and there is a possibility that infections may spread further,” Cabinet spokesman Yoshihide Suga said in a statement. “Possible measures” to avoid it.
The Japanese government last week lifted the bird flu alert in the Asian country last week, the first time since 2014, after detecting the highly pathogenic strain H5N6 in several parts of the archipelago.
The cases of Aomori and Niigata are in addition to that of the two dead swans of Akita Zoo (north of Honshu), to another wild specimen found dead on the northern island of Hokkaido and to a water pond in Kagoshima Prefecture ( On the southern island of Kyushu) where the remains of the virus were also found.
Courtesy of noticieros.televisa.com
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