OKAYAMA – Public health workers began a cull of roughly 200,000 chickens Friday morning at a farm in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, where an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu was confirmed.
The prefectural government said the cull would take four days, with roughly 50,000 birds killed each day. The dead hens will be incinerated.
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