China culls 370,000 birds after outbreak of deadly virus

CHINA reported its fourth bird flu outbreak in three weeks, saying 8,940 chickens died in a northeastern village despite a nationwide effort to contain the virus.

The discovery prompted authorities to destroy about 370,000 birds.

Authorities in Japan have detected signs of bird flu at a northern farm and plan to kill 180,000 chickens after they detected antibodies in some for the H5 family of bird flu virus. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the only one that has spread to humans, has not yet been detected in Japan but the less virulent H5N2 strain hit the country last year.