date:Apr 11, 2014
culture saying the first outbreak in Japan for seven years occurred in October in Okinawa Prefecture.
It then spread around Kyushu, killing an estimated 20,000 pigs in the prefectures of Kagoshima, Miyazaki (9,300 animals), Oita (1,400 animals), and then to central Shikoku and Kanto.
In addition to the 21 prefectures known to be affected, suspicious cases are being investigated in Shizuoka, Ishikawa, Gifu and Tokushima prefectures.
There were about 16.75 million pigs in Japan in 2012.
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