TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Japan detected its first bird flu outbreak in the winter of this year.
Ministry of Agriculture Japan on Wednesday (11/10/2021) said a “highly pathogenic” bird flu case was confirmed at a poultry farm in the northeast of the country.
Quoted Tribunnews from Reuters, Approximately 143,000 laying hens on a farm in Yokote City, Akita Prefecture were culled.
The ministry through its website statement explained that the prohibited zone was set up to a radius of 10 kilometers from the site.
“With the current situation in Japan, we do not believe that there is a possibility of bird flu being transmitted to humans through the consumption of chicken meat or eggs,” the ministry said.
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However, the increase in the number of people in China This year’s bird flu infection has turned into a source of concern among epidemiologists, especially as the world slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
China has reported 21 human infections with the H5N6 subtype of bird flu in 2021 to the World Health Organization, compared with just five years ago, he said, with six people dying and many others critically ill.
Outbreaks of bird flu have also been reported in recent days.
Of Europe, farms in Poland became the location of the latest confirmed cases of bird flu with a total of 650,000 birds.
last winter, Japan experienced the worst bird flu on farms, with more than three million chickens culled and a quarter of the country’s prefectures affected. Read more
Japan has an egg-laying flock of about 185 million hens and a broiler population of 138 million, according to the agriculture ministry.
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(Tribunnews.com/Andari Wulan Nugrahani)
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