Japan launched large culling chickens and ducks

Japan has begun to cull more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious variant of bird flu.

In the small village Sekikawa, north of the capital, Tokyo, is immediately began culling chickens at a farm after forty birds were found dead. The animals were infected with a virus that causes bird flu.

Later in Aomori are 16 500 ducks culled after some tested positive for bird flu.