Japan has reported an outbreak of severe bird flu on an egg farm in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation ...

Japanese authorities have confirmed the season's first outbreak of avian influenza at a poultry farm in the northern ...

The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of ...

As per latest reports, Japan has identified its first bird flu outbreak for the season. The H5N1 infection case was first detected and confirmed at a poultry farm in the northeast of the country.

Up to 77 people in Japan may have been infected with a mild form of bird flu, in what could be the world's first case of human infection of the H5N2 virus, health officials said Tuesday. The possible ...

How is it that birds,kept largely in enclosed buildings are coming into contact with wild bird secretions, unless it is the human workers allowing contamination from outside the buildings to enter?

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan detected the first case of highly pathogenic H5-type bird flu this season at a poultry farm in the south of the country, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday. The local ...

A bird flu virus that had infected pet chickens in southern Japan has been confirmed as the same deadly strain that has ravaged other parts of Asia, a researcher at a government research center said ...

SADO, Japan — Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out before sunrise to search for a bird rescued from extinction in Japan. Starting his car under star-dotted skies ...