CANBERRA/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating ...
Tiggy Grillo receives funding from the Australia Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry as well as all Australian state and territory governments. Simone Vitali receives funding from the ...
A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only countries free from the infection, but this will no doubt change. Known as ...
On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...
The Albanese Labor Government continues to ramp up preparedness for H5 bird flu with the release of a new independent study on the risks to ...
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University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In 2021, avian influenza evolved into a new form – a new and remarkably lethal variant first found in ...
The arrival of spring that heralds the annual bird migration has prompted fresh fears the deadly H5 strain of bird flu will infect Australia for the first time. As the last continent to remain free of ...
For months, Australia's largest supermarkets have been restricting the sale of eggs to customers during an unprecedented bird flu outbreak. But with spring starting this weekend, there are fears that ...
May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. has imposed import curbs on certain poultry and byproducts from Victoria, Australia after determining highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in domestic birds. The ...