REUTERS
November 12, 2026 at 16:43 JST
Kagawa prefectural officials on Nov. 11, 2022, check hens in a poultry house in Kanonji. (Provided by the Kagawa prefectural government/ Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan has confirmed its first bird flu case of the season at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture, a government spokesperson said on Thursday.
The avian influenza has killed 14 birds at the farm in Kameoka city in western Japan, the farm ministry said. The country has begun culling about 200,000 chickens there after testing confirmed the virus.
“The government is asking poultry farmers to make sure they follow strict hygiene,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said.
The ministry did not say which strain of the virus was confirmed.
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