Kyodo: 150,000 chickens to be slaughtered in northern Japan due to bird flu outbreak

Authorities in northern Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture will slaughter about 150,000 chickens at a local farm due to an outbreak of bird flu, Report informs referring to TASS.

The authorities will also conduct an audit to determine the cause of the infection in the region.

This outbreak was the fifth in a row this season. Earlier, about 1.8 million chickens were slaughtered in Japan. In addition to Hokkaido, foci of infection were found in the eastern prefecture of Ibaraki and the western prefecture of Okayama.