As an unusually strong wave of flu infections spreads across Japan this winter, experts have shared tips with the Mainichi ...

Influenza is affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Japan and rising rapidly among that nation's population of 124.5 million and overwhelming many healthcare providers and drugmakers.

Two of the three chicken farms are in the city of Handa and the other is in the city of Tokoname. The quail farm is located ...

With confirmation of a new highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) farm outbreak an almost daily occurrence in Japan over the past few weeks, fears are being voiced about a looming egg shortage in ...

Japan in the last week of December experienced the biggest influenza outbreak since comparable data became available 25 years ago, health authorities said Thursday.

In November, around 2,500 chickens were culled after an outbreak of the virus was reported on a farm in Gyoda city’s Saitama prefecture. The environment ministry raised the bird flu alert to its ...

TOKYO, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Japan is experiencing a surge of avian influenza outbreaks, with approximately 5 million chickens and other birds culled across five prefectures this month. The Ministry ...

So far in January, as many as 13 bird flu cases have been confirmed at chicken farms across the country, including multiple ...

Japan's medical institutions dealing with emergency patients are struggling with the spread of influenza as their beds are often filled to capacity.

He called for quick reporting of any abnormalities. This season, a total of 39 bird flu outbreaks had occurred in 14 prefectures across the country as of Monday noon, with about 6.93 million birds ...

TOKYO -- As an unusually strong wave of flu infections spreads across Japan this winter, experts have shared tips with the Mainichi Shimbun on how to avoid catching it, while examining factors ...

The quail farm is located in the town of Agui. The prefectural government of Chiba, east of Tokyo, the same day announced avian flu cases at three chicken farms in the cities of Choshi and Asahi.