While Australia has had numerous outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu strains in poultry flocks, including earlier this year, they were less-virulent strains that did not spread through wild birds. New Zealand has never faced high pathogenicity bird flu. Its poultry industry association has organ...
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Australia has reported its first human case of avian influenza and a separate outbreak of a highly contagious strain of the virus on a poultry farm in the state of Victoria.The human case involved a child who had contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus while they traveled in India. Authoriti...
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The tightly packed, caged minks could have transmitted H5N1 due to their conditions rather than a fundamental change in the virus,Frank Wong, a bird flu expert at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, tells theSydney Morning Herald.“It’s still a bi...
Pathogen detected on Bird Island Until now, Antarctica, along with Australia and Oceania, was considered the last region on earth to be spared from the current bird flu outbreak. The polar research organization British Antarctic Survey (BAS) announced this week that the pathogen has now been dete...
Shares in vaccine makers including Moderna and BioNTech rose sharply on Wednesday after Australia reported its first human H5N1 bird flu case and the US detected its third, increasing fears of wider transmission. Further signs of bird flu transmission proved a boo...
Bird flu spreads to farmed animals from wild birds. The 2024 infections are Australia's 10th outbreak since 1976, each contained and eradicated, the government has said.
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