The chief executive of the poultry farm at the centre of a highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak says his team is facing a ...

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 ...

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

The high pathogenic avian influenza - otherwise known as bird flu - has been found on a free range chicken farm in North Otago. Laying hens foraging outside were thought to have been infected with the ...

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

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 ...

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

Bird flu can't spread between humans. But governments around the world are stocking up on vaccines in case one day it does.

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A highly pathogenic H7N6 bird flu has been detected in New Zealand for the first time, putting the country’s poultry industry ...

Since a deadly strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, started circulating around the world, New Zealand government officials have been preparing for its arrival.