Japan Confirms Second H5N1 Outbreak This Month

Guess I was wrong about thinking Japan had H5N1 contained. Here's the story from the BBC:

"Officials in Japan have confirmed that a recent outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

The outbreak, at a farm in Hyuga, is the second to strike Japan's main chicken-producing region of Miyazaki.

Samples taken from 3,000 dead chickens from the farm revealed that all had been infected with the H5N1 virus.

Officials said they had begun slaughtering the farm's remaining 49,000 birds on Friday. A further 50,000 chickens from a farm neighbouring the one that suffered the outbreak will also be killed as a precautionary measure, an official said.

The earlier H5N1 outbreak occured in mid-January at a farm in the same region."

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I wonder if anyone has been doing a running count on the total number of poultry culled worldwide. It's truly a chicken holocaust.