The deadly H5 strain of bird flu has been detected in an Australian seabird for the first time in a coastal region of South ...

Australia confirms its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a seabird near Esperance, Western Australia, meaning the virus has now reached every continent.

Australia is racing to contain the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which is now believed to have infected ...

Australia has confirmed the first local case of a seabird infected with the deadly H5N1 flu virus on Friday, weeks after the country reported detecting the virus on its shores. The country’s national ...

The deadly H5 bird flu has been detected in a bird native to South Australia for the first time, as the state’s total ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has now been found in a second state, South Australia, after earlier being identified in Western Australia. Authorities have confirmed three seabirds have died of ...

H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia, the last continent it had spared. It came from Antarctica via seabirds, and the next ...

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When the avian uprising inevitably occurs, humans will be wise to defect immediately to the Bird Army. A new study suggests that certain species of birds in Australia have figured out a way to spread ...

A total of 12 cases of H5 bird flu have been confirmed in Australia since June but all of them were in migratory seabirds, ...