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Bird flu outbreak prompts chicken cull in Japan

No cases of humans contracting the disease who have eaten poultry or eggs have been recorded.

JAPAN HAS SLAUGHTERED 112,000 chickens after confirming its first bird flu infections for three years, with authorities stepping up efforts to swiftly contain the latest outbreak, officials have said.

Workers on Sunday started culling 56,000 chickens kept at a poultry farm in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, where DNA tests confirmed the H5 strain of the virus after owners reported sudden deaths in the flock on Saturday, a Kumamoto prefectural government official said.

Another 56,000 birds were slaughtered at a separate farm run by the same owner after it was identified as a location of possible infections, the official said.

“We finished the slaughtering operation late Monday and are now preventing the virus from spreading to other areas,” the official said, adding that no further infections had been reported by Tuesday morning.

It was the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu in Japan in three years. Scientists say there have been no cases of the disease being contracted by people who have eaten poultry or eggs.

Containment

In Tokyo, agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister Yoshimasa Hayashi was also quoted by Jiji Press as saying: “We will do our best to contain (the outbreak) as quickly as possible.”

The ministry has been warning farmers about infection risks, citing the continued spread of the disease in Asia, including in neighbouring South Korea.

Local authorities on Saturday banned movement of chickens from the two affected farms as well as other farms in their vicinities.

Authorities were sanitising areas around the two farms and testing birds at other area farms.

Officials were also setting up areas to disinfect vehicles travelling on major roads around the affected farms to prevent the virus from spreading further.

- © AFP, 2014

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    Mute Shane Morris
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 10:44 PM

    If only the Brits managed to get China to agree to some kind of guarantee in 1997…say a backstop, just in case China ever reneged on an international treaty…despite all the reassurances.

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    Jul 4th 2019, 9:00 AM

    @Shane Morris: Perhaps read the last paragraph of the article.

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    Mute Mushy Peas
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    Jul 4th 2019, 9:40 AM

    @wattsed56: you missed his point entirely.

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    Mute Fergus Murphy
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 10:32 PM

    Maybe the Brits can solve all of this with existing technology

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    Mute Devilsavocado
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 11:03 PM

    China is going to do what China is going to do and there is nothing the British can do about. The Chinese have little to fear from anybody in either military or economical sanctions, they have become a massive world power that puts all other countries but the US into a lower league, Britain better get used to the fact they are no longer at the big boys table.

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    Mute Liam O hAodha
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 11:42 PM

    The Brits really have made a balls of everywhere they occupied & put borders in, Ireland, China, Palestine, India/Pakistan, North Africa, Middle East, Argentina/Malvinas islands, actually everywhere they caused problems

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    Mute John Smith
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    Jul 4th 2019, 8:59 AM

    @Liam O hAodha: Well funny enough if you don’t put up borders then you don’t get countries . You are a nationalists . You do believe in dividing up big countries into small countries do you not .

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    Mute Sean Oige
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 10:32 PM

    Suits China to wipe out hk financial sector and allow Shanghai to become the financial sector in the region. Will be interesting to see large corporates response if that happens…

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    Jul 3rd 2019, 10:51 PM

    Send in the gunboats,how dare those foreign chappies threaten our great British empire

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    Jul 4th 2019, 1:41 AM

    @Thomas Devlin: you f€&@“g idiot

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    Mute Cal Mooney
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 11:11 PM

    You really have to wonder what the english are up to? Do they really think they can influence China. They definitely are not going to be influencing the EU from here on out. They long for their former colonial days and the sickening experience that every occupied nation suffered. Maybe China should invade england and bring true freedom to its people by getting rid of the current regime installed there. And release Julian Assange while they are at it. If only.

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    Mute John Smith
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    Jul 4th 2019, 10:32 AM

    @Cal Mooney: How dare Britain stand for the rights of the people of Hong Kong .

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    Mute Ben Jamen
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    Jul 3rd 2019, 11:44 PM

    Great bunch of lads though…

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    Jul 3rd 2019, 11:02 PM

    China, conform!

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    Mute kushal kumar
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    Jul 4th 2019, 5:41 AM

    News reports in the month of June 2019 say that Hong Kong is these days upset with the government. The city’s pro- Beijing leaders are reportedly pushing a bill through legislation that would allow extradition to any with which it already does not already have a treaty – including mainland China for the first time. Huge protesting crowds gathered Hong Kong on 9 June as anger rose over the proposed bill. The protesters also assembled in large number on 1 July 2019 , the anniversary day of Hongkong becoming part of China , turned violent and marched to the Parliament. In this context , it is apt to refer readers to this Vedic astrology writer’s predictive alerts for more care and appropriate strategy in article – “ world trends in April to August 2019” – brought to public domain widely in the month of March and subsequently on 5 April in present year 2019. The alert had said that during a period of four and a half months from mid- April to August , particularly June in 2019 , China may take more care and appropriate strategy in relation to sort of protests among some Unions or associations or federation within the country. The related text in the article reads like this :-
    “ 4. Unions , federations , groups or associations within the country may show signs of divergence in more than one sphere of life. In other words , the spirit of unity in them may be short of being ideal”. It seems the alert has been precisely meaningful.
    Note : – This writer’s other significant time-tested predictive work in relation to the U.S. so far can be found at wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/4897/ and wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/5060/. Separately and in addition , this writer has alerted already on 22 June , 2019 that more care and appropriate strategy may be called for during a period of fortnight from 25 September to 9 October , particularly on 28 -29 September , in the present year 2019 against likely War or WW3 -like scenario , massive earthquakes , storms-tornadoes-cyclones , floods, landslide , road-rail-air safety concerns , economic and financial major worrisome concerns , health woes related to stomach-head-brain , human malice at its height in operation and the like. Vulnerability of a country or region appears to be main determining factor. Having said that , it may be made clear that human more care and appropriate strategy has weight over planetary trend generating impacts.

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    Jul 4th 2019, 6:07 AM

    @kushal kumar: and your point is …?

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    Jul 4th 2019, 8:11 AM

    @kushal kumar: ✋

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    Jul 4th 2019, 9:16 AM

    @kushal kumar: Will Galway bate Mayo!

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