Poultry farms tested positive for bird flu Kagoshima Izumi

25 January 2011。

Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 25, from Izumi chicken poultry farms in the prefecture, came out and announced that tested positive for bird flu rapid test.






The city of cranes wintering in the country's largest since December last year, from the 7th Hooded virulent H5N1 virus had been detected subtypes.
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poultry farms, the livestock hygiene service center Hokusatsu County "came out wrong with chicken" and was reported. This poultry birds are reared hens around 8600, had 85 dead birds.
Health at the same rapid test results of poultry feathers 9 for this chicken, it came from eight birds tested positive.
County brought the livestock hygiene service center Prefecture Kagoshima Chuo samples, genetic testing to examine the characteristics of the virus at the genetic level (PCR test) is performed.
According to the Livestock Division, Kagoshima Prefecture, the number of broilers raised at the time of last February, the top country in about 80,001,925 birds, hens was fourth in the country of about 90,000,907 birds. Izumi City has 128 units poultry farms, broiler 113 million birds, hens 273 million birds, about 393 million birds are raising a total of 70,000 poultry birds species.