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 ...

SYDNEY, Dec 2 (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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The project is the brainchild of Dr. Robert Webster, a New Zealand virologist who was the first to understand that flu viruses come from the guts of birds. “We were most amazed.

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 ...