広島で鳥インフル　国内６県目

　広島県は７日、同県三原市の養鶏場で、致死率の高い高病原性とみられる鳥インフルエンザが発生したと発表した。広島県で確認されるのは初めて。全国では今年、香川、福岡、兵庫、宮崎、奈良に続く６県目の発生となる。
　広島県はこの養鶏場と、経営者が同じで共通の人が出入りしている別の養鶏場の２カ所で計約１３万４０００羽を殺処分する。半径１０キロ圏内で飼育されている約９０万６０００羽については、圏外への持ち出しなどを制限する。（2020/12/07-08:12）

Hiroshima Prefecture announced Monday an outbreak of avian influenza believed to be highly pathogenic at a chicken farm in the city of Mihara in the western Japan prefecture.
   Hiroshima became the sixth prefecture in Japan to report an outbreak of such bird flu this year, following western and southwestern Japan prefectures of Kagawa, Fukuoka, Hyogo, Miyazaki and Nara.
   The Hiroshima prefectural government will cull a total of some 134,000 chickens at the affected farm and another farm with the same operator.
   Farms within 10 kilometers of the affected facility were told not to move about 906,000 chickens they raise outside the 10-kilometer zone.
   After receiving a report on an increase in the number of dead chickens at the farm in Mihara on Sunday, the prefectural government conducted simple and genetic tests and found positive cases there. As of Sunday, 11 chickens had died at the farm.