Mito, Ibaraki Pref.– Japan has actually chosen almost 10 million birds at poultry farms this season, striking a record high, as cases of bird influenza rise throughout the nation, the farm ministry stated Monday.
The number chosen skyrocketed to 9.98 million as Ibaraki Prefecture stated the exact same day that it had actually started choosing roughly 930,000 chickens at a farm in the town of Shirosato after hereditary screening validated the existence of bird influenza.
The previous record cull stood at 9.87 million, carried out in between November 2020 to March 2021, according to the Ministry of Farming, Forestry and Fisheries.
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