Canadian Press: Japan starts slaughter of 770,000 birds to stem bird flu outbreak
Japan has begun slaughtering 770,000 birds in an effort to stamp out a mild form of bird flu in northern Japan, an official said Wednesday. Ibaraki prefecture is culling the birds as a precaution after the H5N2 virus was detected in mid-January at Moriya farm, about 100 kilometres north of Tokyo...About 2.5 million birds have already been destroyed at other Ibaraki farms since June last year.
