Friday, February 27, 2009

Found for the first time in Japan H7 avian influenza virus

February 27, 2009 13:15:49 Source: Xinhuanet

February 27, in Aichi, Japan Shimizu-cho, Toyohashi City, found that H7 avian influenza virus was isolated farms. Japan's agriculture ministry said on the 27th, quarantine staff in Aichi Prefecture in central Japan at a quail farm found H7 avian influenza virus, This is the first time the virus was discovered in Japan. Xinhua / AFP

Xinhua Tokyo, February 27 (Xinhua Liu Yuan) on the 27th MAFF said quarantine officers in the Aichi Prefecture in central Japan at a quail farm found H7 avian influenza viruses, this is the first time in Japan found that the virus.

Ministry of Agriculture, said the farm is located in Aichi Prefecture, Shimizu-cho, Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, on the 18th of this month quarantine officers have conducted a routine farms are regularly checked, extracted 10 quail serum. 25, one of two quail serum of H7 avian influenza virus antibody test results were positive. Therefore, the same day also took 30 quail serum, one of five of the above test results were positive, there is no found dead quails.

The farm on the 25th from a ban on the transport quail, Aichi Prefecture, is also prohibited on the same day to the farm as the center, a radius of 10 kilometers of the chicken and other poultry transport.

According to local media quoted the Aichi news reports, Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, this farm a total of 320,000 quails, in a radius of 10 kilometers of poultry embargo There are 65 farms with 4,060,000 quail.

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