Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said on the 12th that a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture experienced highly pathogenic avian influenza. This is the first confirmed bird flu outbreak in Japan this season. Every year from fall and winter to the spring of the following year is the bird flu epidemic season in Japan. A press release issued by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on the 12th said that the poultry farm where bird flu was discovered is located in Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture, and a total of about 200,000 laying hens have been raised. On the morning of the 12th, genetic test results confirmed that the poultry raised was infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. The communiqué said that according to the relevant epidemic prevention policy, the relevant departments will cull and dispose of all poultry at the farm, classify the area within a radius of 3 km as a “restricted movement area”, and classify the 3 to 10 km radius of the surrounding area as a “restricted area to move out.”

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