The avian flu epidemic in Japan continues to expand, and the scale of the infection reaches a new high

According to CCTV News customer news, according to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) report, a chicken farm in Chiba Prefecture, Japan confirmed the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza on January 2 local time, and the local government has decided to disinfect around 10,000 chickens Perform culling.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, from the end of October 2022 to January 3, 2023, during this bird flu epidemic season, 53 cases of bird flu outbreaks were reported in chicken farms and other facilities in 23 top-level administrative regions in Japan, breaking the highest record from November 2020 to March 2021. Up to now, the total number of poultry culled during this round of bird flu epidemic has reached about 7.74 million . If the scale of infection continues to expand, the total number of poultry culled this avian flu epidemic season could exceed the all-time high of about 9.87 million poultry culled from November 2020 to March 2021. (He Xinlei, reporter from the headquarters)

Edited by Xin Jing

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