Tests: Bird Flu in Japan Was H5N1 Strain

January 16th, 2007 in Medicine & Health / Diseases
Tests: Bird Flu in Japan Was H5N1 Strain (AP)

Workers in protective gears prepare to incinerate chickens hit by bird flu at an incineration plant in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007. Japanese authorities began incinerating more than 10,000 chickens that have either died of bird flu or culled at a southern Japanese poultry farm. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

(AP) -- Tests have confirmed that bird flu detected in chickens in southern Japan was the virulent H5N1 strain that has been blamed for more than 160 human deaths worldwide, the Japanese Agricultural Ministry said Tuesday.

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