The Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that test results had shown that the outbreak in Miyazaki prefecture, first detected earlier this week, was due to the H5N1 virus.
The H5N1 bird flu has already been confirmed at two other poultry farms in Miyazaki, Japan's largest poultry-producing region, and at one farm in the western prefecture of Okayama.
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