Japan culls 4,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak
- 9 years ago
Government officials arrive at a poultry farm in western Japan with a grisly task.
They are here to cull roughly 4,000 chickens after three of the birds tested positive for H5, a highly contagious form of bird flu.
According to local media, officials have pledged to finish the entire culling and disinfecting process in one day.
(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPAN'S CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY, YOSHIHIDE SUGA, SAYING:
"The Prime Minister has ordered the government to make the utmost and immediate efforts to collect information about the situation, to implement thorough preventive measures, and to provide people information relevant to their daily lives."
Back on the farm the birds are buried in the ground.
Farmers in the area will now have to wait to see whether the cull is enough to avoid a repeat of a massive outbreak of the disease four years ago in which around a million chickens were eventually slaughtered.
They are here to cull roughly 4,000 chickens after three of the birds tested positive for H5, a highly contagious form of bird flu.
According to local media, officials have pledged to finish the entire culling and disinfecting process in one day.
(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPAN'S CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY, YOSHIHIDE SUGA, SAYING:
"The Prime Minister has ordered the government to make the utmost and immediate efforts to collect information about the situation, to implement thorough preventive measures, and to provide people information relevant to their daily lives."
Back on the farm the birds are buried in the ground.
Farmers in the area will now have to wait to see whether the cull is enough to avoid a repeat of a massive outbreak of the disease four years ago in which around a million chickens were eventually slaughtered.