AR-News: (Japan) Officials cull healthy chickens at insistence of shrine in Mie

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

TSU, Mie Pref. (Kyodo) Health officials from the Mie Prefectural Government 
said Saturday they have destroyed 83 pet chickens kept by a local Shinto shrine 
due to public concerns over bird flu, even though the birds were healthy. 
The Mie Prefecture Central Livestock Hygiene Service Center destroyed the 
chickens at the request of the shrine, the health officials said. 
The shrine did not want the birds to scare away visitors amid growing public 
fears over avian influenza, they said.



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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040222a4.htm 










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