H5N1-Positive Poultry Found in Chiba
JAPAN - Two commercial flocks in Chiba city have tested positive to the H5N1 sub-type of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus.
24 March 2011
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The veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No. 11 dated 23 March to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
The report describes the finding of HPAI-positive birds at two neighbouring farms in Chiba prefecture – Wakaba-ku 1 and Wakaba-ku 2 on 13 and 16 March, respectively. Two and 82 birds died and were found to have been infected with the virus on farms 1 and 2, respectively. The remaining 96,196 birds on the two farms were destroyed.
The presence of the H5N1 sub-type of the virus has been confirmed.
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