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Article: Japan Confirms Third Bird Flu Outbreak
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- February 29, 2004
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NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-29-2004
Dateline: TOKYO
A masked police stands guard at a road block as Kyoto prefectural government officials in protective suits work near a chicken farm where Japan's third bird flu case was reported in Tanba, western Japan, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004. Agriculture officials fear bird flu may have spread from the farm after 25 chickens at the nearby slaughterhouse tested positive in initial screenings Saturday. (AP Photo/Xinhua)
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 ...