THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 10, 2023 at 17:04 JST
Agriculture minister Tetsuro Nomura, left, urges poultry growers to take maximum precautions against bird flu on Jan. 9. (Hiroyuki Maegawa)
Japan’s worst pathogenic avian influenza epidemic has spread to poultry farms in 23 prefectures, leading to a record 10.08 million chickens culled or scheduled to be killed as of Jan. 10. [Read More]
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