New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago. Farms linked to the original site, which tested positive for avian influenza ...

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 vulnerable species and war ...

New Zealand officials are investigating a second egg farm in the southern region of Otago for potential cases of bird flu. Biosecurity New Zealand “placed a precautionary restricted place notice ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zealand said on Monday that it had suspended all poultry exports after detecting a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza at a poultry farm on the South Island. Tests ...

No sign of the high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)has been found on a second Otago farm, Biosecurity New Zealand has found. Test results to date from a small free-range layer chicken farm near ...

WELLINGTON, Dec 24 (Reuters) - New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm this month.

New Zealand has temporarily halted poultry exports after H7N6, a “high pathogenic strain” of avian influenza, was found at a commercial egg farm.

It's the second Adélie penguin to come ashore in New Zealand this year. RNZ. ... An Antarctic penguin found on a Wellington beach is undergoing disease testing, including for the deadly bird flu.

H5N1 hasn't reached Australia or New Zealand, but Wille thinks it's just a matter of time. For the world, the future of this virus, with its propensity to defy expectations, is up in the air.

When researchers analysed 16 years of Ministry for Primary Industries sampling, covering some 19,000 wild birds, they found the key carriers of avian flu within New Zealand weren’t migrating ...

CANBERRA/WELLINGTON – Australia and New Zealand are bracing themselves for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease ...