Last week, avian influenza virus was detected for the first time in New Zealand. The presence of the H7N6 HPAI virus serotype ...

“Work started this morning to humanely cull chickens in two sheds on a farm managed by Mainland Poultry where testing confirmed cases of an H7N6 subtype of avian influenza in birds,” Biosecurity New ...

Mainland Poultry is in full response mode and actively addressing the avian influenza situation on one of its South Island farms, Hillgrove Farm. Today we have begun the humane culling of birds in the ...

The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird ...

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird ...

A precautionary notice is being placed on a small free-range poultry farm after a number of hens died, the Ministry for ...

The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird flu, is expected to get under way today. They will ...

An Australian egg producer whose chickens were infected with bird flu has warned New Zealand farmers that it is likely to ...

The high pathogenic type of bird flu recently confirmed in a New Zealand egg farm was not H5N1 strain that people are most worried about and would pos ...

The virus has recently expanded in two ways: across regions and across species. Rather than being concentrated in Asia, bird ...

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

A new avian flu strain demonstrates low infectious rates but heightened airborne transmission, according to a study in Nature ...