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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A small free-range poultry farm is being tested for the flu after a number of hens died, officials say.

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 ...

A California farm has expanded a recall of raw milk sold in stores and has halted production. State health and agriculture ...

Right now, if you are not a farmworker, your risk of getting bird flu is virtually zero. But if you were actively trying to ...

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