After corona, bird flu is wreaking havoc in japan. In order to prevent the flu from spreading, about 840,000 chickens will be culled in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. According to Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries The winter outbreak of bird flu, which started in November, has beat all records in terms of the number of chickens culled in one season (more than 6 million birds).

According to the report,  over a dozen dead chickens were found at a poultry farm in Ibaraki, which became the 17th prefecture to register bird flu cases this winter. The chicken farm, located in the town of Shirosato, started slaughtering about 840,000 chickens on Tuesday morning.

Ibaraki Prefecture has designated the area within a radius of 1.8 miles from the poultry farm as a "restricted movement area" that prohibits the movement of chickens and eggs in the area. Last month, some 140,000 chickens were culled in Toyama Prefecture amid a bird flu outbreak there. According to the Japanese authorities, close to 40 farms have been affected by the bird flu. 

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