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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

New Zealand officials are investigating a second egg farm in the southern region of Otago for potential cases of bird flu.

“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 ...

H5N1 bird flu is spreading among animals and humans, raising concerns about mutation risks. While human cases are mild, ...

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 ...

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

The recent appearance of the H5N1 bird flu in pigs does raise viral reassortment concerns. Here's what we know about this ...