Friday, January 21, 2011

Japan-Miyazaki positive bird flu began killing 10,000 birds

36 chickens died at a poultry farm in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, early morning April 22, genetic testing (PCR test) results, and announced that it was positive indicating strong suspicion of bird flu.


National Institute of Animal Health Research Institute (Tsukuba, Japan) to send samples to confirm the highly virulent H5N1 infection, including what type? Province yesterday morning, killing all the birds began about 10,000 chickens bred for this poultry. Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control Law on the same day, setting the movement ban the movement of restricted areas in the sphere of chicken and eggs from poultry farms radius of 10 km.

According to the announcement, the county is the 7th out of 21 tested positive for a simple, genetic testing at Miyazaki Prefectural Livestock Hygiene Service. As a result, all the results came out with the H5 subtype.

22 January 2011

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