Japan on high alert as avian flu rages across the country and heads north

Hardly every week passes by with out information of a poultry farm in Japan being hit by an avian flu outbreak.

For the reason that begin of the chicken flu season in October, 80 farms in 26 prefectures have been affected, forcing a document 16.1 million chickens to be culled as of Wednesday, based on the agricultural ministry.

Simply this month, 4 outbreaks have been reported at egg farms in Fukuoka, Niigata and Iwate prefectures, and officers within the Tohoku area and Hokkaido are on excessive alert as migratory birds carrying the virus are actually making their means towards the northern elements of the nation.