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TOKYO, Tues. --- Japan will cull 90,000 more chickens after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in northern Japan, authorities said today. A virus of the H5 strain was detected among chickens at Tsukuba farm in Ibaraki prefecture (state), 100km north of Tokyo, Ibaraki said in a statement. |
In Kiev, the outbreak of bird flu in Ukraine has expanded to at least 12 villages on the Crimean peninsula, the country’s top emergency official said yesterday. --- AP. |
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