TOKYO (Reuters): Japan has detected a new outbreak of bird flu on a chicken farm in southwestern Fukuoka prefecture, in addition to the eight already reported in Kagawa prefecture west of Tokyo, the government said on Wednesday (Nov 25).
The wave of avian influenza that began earlier this month is proving to be the worst in around four years and the first serious spread of the virus in two years.
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