“The death toll is 40 times” What if “Bird Influx”, which is scarier than the new Corona, is an outbreak? The number of chickens slaughtered is already the highest in history |

Repeated mutations can lead to one-to-one transmission from person to person

This winter, highly toxic “bird flu” is rampant, especially in western Japan. It spread to chicken farms in Chiba prefecture on December 23 last year, and the outbreak reached 14 prefectures. The number of chickens slaughtered has already exceeded 4.5 million, a record.

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Prefectural personnel euthanized at a chicken farm in Miho City, Kagawa Prefecture, where highly pathogenic avian influenza occurred = December 2, 2020[proporcionado por la prefectura]

This bird flu has not only infected chickens but also humans, causing many deaths abroad. Furthermore, when the pathogenic virus mutates repeatedly, it changes to a “new influenza virus” that is infected one after another from person to person, and there is a high risk of affecting us. It is very different from infectious cattle diseases such as “Toncorella (swine fever, CSF)” which is prevalent only among animals such as pigs and wild boar.

Bird flu is an infectious disease far more terrifying and terrifying than the new Crown, which has affected countries around the world.

Avian influenza is subject to the slaughter of all chickens on poultry farms that occurs under the Domestic Animal Infectious Disease Control Act. It is smothered to death with carbon dioxide and buried in the ground. Disinfectant lime powder is sprayed around the area. That’s the white chicken farm depicted in the television news images. If it is a large-scale chicken farm, the Self Defense Forces will be dispatched. Chickens from nearby poultry farms can also be removed. Meat and eggs from sick chicken farms are not distributed on the market.

The slaughter is to prevent the spread of the virus to other chicken farms. If left untreated, the chicken will die, but there is a risk of mutating to the new influenza as described above in the chicken-to-chicken transmission process.

A duck brought a virus that was prevalent in Europe last winter to Japan

This winter it was first confirmed at a chicken farm in Miho city, Kagawa prefecture, on November 5 last year. After that, it happened in Hyogo, Fukuoka, Okayama, etc., and it was also found in a chicken farm in Minokamo City, Gifu Prefecture on January 2 this year. That same day, the infection had spread to 33 chicken farms in 14 prefectures.

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The type of virus that has been confirmed is the highly pathogenic “H5N8 subtype”. In October last year, it was detected in wild bird droppings in Hokkaido and South Korea. Analysis of the genes of the detected virus revealed that it was quite similar to the virus that prevailed in Europe last winter. Migratory birds such as ducks infected with this virus, which was prevalent in Europe, are believed to have arrived in Japan through Siberia last fall and brought the virus.

The duck is a host for bird flu and, unlike chickens, it does not become weak or die when infected. Duck is not only a green onion, but also an avian influenza virus.