TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has mobilized its military to help with a second mass cull of 230,000 chickens amid a spreading outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, officials said. The highly virulent H5 strain was found in chickens at a farm in Joetsu city in Niigata prefecture, the local government said in a statement late Wednesday. It said that 2,100 people, including 1,020 members of the military, were being mobilized in […]