Wearing anti-virus suits, soldiers of Japan's Ground Self Defense Force head to a chicken farm in Sekikawa, Niigata prefecture, on November 29, 2016. - Ground Self Defense Force via Ji/AFP
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan has begun slaughtering more than 330,000 farm birds to contain its first outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu in nearly two years, the government said Tuesday.
The planned cull of some 16,500 ducks at a farm in the northern prefecture of Aomori and nearly 320,000 chickens at a farm in central Niigata prefecture, began Tuesday, said top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga.
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