A 2.5-year-old returning to Australia from India was infected with a reassortant H5N1 virus, revealing genetic mixing between ...
Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different ...
Last month, a teenager in Canada was also hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu. According to the US Centers for ...
Extra surveillance is underway to ensure the cases are not masking a highly contagious strain of bird flu that is yet to enter Australia. Surveillance efforts on the New South Wales Central Coast ...
A new bird flu mutation of H5N1 has been discovered in a patient in the US state of Louisiana. Public health officials are concerned the new strain may rapidly develop, increasing its ability to ...
An Australian egg producer whose chickens were infected with bird flu has warned New Zealand farmers that it is likely to take months to get birds back on the farm and laying. An Otago farm ...
The vast majority of women who contract bird flu during pregnancy and their unborn baby will die from the virus, according to ...
There has been a spike in pelicans with suspected botulism dying on the NSW Central Coast in recent weeks. But the symptoms ...
Further tests are being carried out this week to confirm if highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been contained to ...
Australia has remained free of the H5 strain of the HPAI virus ... governor Gavin Newson declared a state of emergency to help deal with a bird flu outbreak, which has spread to humans and cattle.