# Weekly poultry digest: massive H5N8 bird flu culls reported in Japan
						 | The Poultry Site

> Japan has reported avian flu in 12 of its 47 prefectures, with a record 3 million birds culled to date, including about 32,000 birds in Kochi. South Korea also issued a 48-hour national movement standstill order for poultry farms after a rise in H5N8 cases.

- Date: 2020-12-18 · published 2020-12-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region Japan · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/49658-weekly-poultry-digest-massive-h5n8-bird-flu-culls-reported-in-japan-the-poultry
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Record culls in Japan and Korea remove layers and broilers from the supply chain, reducing poultry feed demand in Asia. Continued outbreaks raise the risk of wider trade restrictions on poultry products.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- thepoultrysite.com: https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/weekly-poultry-digest-massive-h5n8-bird-flu-culls-reported-in-japan

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