Officials Cull Poultry After Bird Flu Cases
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From Times Wire Reports
Officials began culling chickens and disinfecting a farm in northeastern Japan after an outbreak of bird flu, although the strain involved is not considered dangerous to humans.
Dozens of officials wearing white suits, masks and safety goggles entered the farm in Ibaraki prefecture, where more than 800 chickens have died since April. Recent tests on some found they were infected with the H5N2 strain of bird flu.
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