BBC reports that Japan 49,000 chickens on a farm in the Miyazaki region of Japan would be slaughtered after 3,000 dead chickens from the farm all tested positive for bird flu. It wasn’t clear to me whether the chickens had died on their own or whether they had been slaughtered and then tested.

This isn’t Japan’s first bird flu outbreak, but there have been no human deaths there yet.

Via: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan confirms bird flu outbreak
[tags]bird flu, japan, plague, chickens, H5N1[/tags]

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