Japan recorded a bird flu H5N6
The virus was detected in two prefectures, Miyagi and Chiba.
TOKYO, March 25. /Offset. TASS Igor Belyaev/. The Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries of Japan has established that a form of bird flu found on poultry farms in the prefectures of Miyagi and Chiba, is the H5N6 virus. On Saturday announced the Ministry.
The virus was discovered at two farms in the cities of Kurihara and Asahi.
At the end of last year Japan had scored about a million chickens due to the outbreak of the avian influenza virus H5N8. Due to the scale of exposure to the culling of birds was even connected units of the self-defense forces of the country.