Bird flu threat in Japan...

After the seventy chicken were found dead on Friday and more 200 were found dead on Saturday  in Kumamoto preffecture, another  bird flu threat has emerged in Japan.
It is assumed more than one thousnad of chickens were apprantly infected by  a H5-tye avian flu virus.The Kumamoto Prefectural Government ordered 56,000 chickens culled at the Taragi farm and the same number at another nearby run by the same operator in Sagara.
Local authorities have begun disinfecting vehicles at 11 checkpoints around the two farms, agriculture ministry officials in Tokyo said.

The Kumamoto Prefectural Government has banned the transportation of any eggs and all 43,000 chickens kept within 3 km of the farms, the officials said.

Chicken ranchers between 3 km and 10 km from the farms are forbidden from transporting their chickens and eggs outside the areas, although moving them within the region is still
The last bird flu outbreak in Japan occurred in the city of Chiba in March 2011. It is the first outbreak ever at a chicken farm in Kumamoto Prefecture.