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Genetic Tests Confirm Ninth Bird Flu Outbreak This Season at Kyoto Egg Farm

Officials moved to contain local spread through culling orders alongside ring-based movement controls.

Overview

  • The affected Kameoka City facility houses roughly 280,000 egg-laying chickens.
  • All birds at the farm will be culled, incinerated and buried under ministry guidelines.
  • Movement controls bar the transport of chickens and eggs within 3 kilometers, with limits on shipments outside the 3–10 kilometer zone.
  • Disinfection has been strengthened around the site and an epidemiological investigation team has been dispatched, with ministry experts on standby.
  • This is the ninth outbreak of the season, after earlier cases led to the culling of nearly 2.4 million chickens nationwide.