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Article: Officials confirm Japan's third outbreak of bird flu, farm operator under fire for failing to report bird deaths
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- February 29, 2004
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NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-29-2004
Dateline: TOKYO
Japan's agriculture minister on Sunday slammed a senior poultry industry executive for failing to report the deaths of tens of thousands of chickens on his farm, where officials have confirmed the country's third outbreak of bird flu.
About 67,000 of the 200,000 chickens at the farm in southwestern Japan died in the past week, but Hajimu Asada failed to alert authorities and continued to ship live chickens, meat and eggs to customers. Media reports said officials learned of the outbreak from an anonymous phone call that prompted an investigation.
"It is terribly regrettable that the report (of the ...