Avian influenza Australia

A highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected on an egg farm near Melbourne but it is not the same strain that has swept the globe and infected dairy cows ...

Victoria's Chief Health Officer Dr Clare Looker said the child contracted the severe infection in India and was unwell in March 2024 but has made a full ...

The avian flu detected at a Victorian egg farm is not believed to be the contagious new strain...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian health authorities have detected the presence of the avian influenza virus at an egg farm near Melbourne although further ...

A child who returned to Victoria from India has been confirmed as Australia's first case of a deadly bird flu strain spreading globally.

Severe turbulence flung passengers and crew around the cabin of a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore, forcing an emergency landing in ...

A child has become Australia's first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu — revealed on the same day another strain was detected on a Victorian farm.

A child in Victoria has been confirmed as the first case of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, in Au...

The Australian Government has enacted its emergency animal disease response plans to support the Victorian Government as it leads the response to.

A critically ill child who returned from India in March was infected with the disease, which has killed millions of animals worldwide.

A dangerous strain of avian influenza (bird flu) is now wreaking havoc on every continent except Australia and the rest of Oceania. While we remain.

A Victorian child has tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza after returning to the country from overseas earlier this year. The Department of Health says ...

Australia's first human case of bird flu, also known as the H5N1 infection, has been detected in a child after they returned to Victoria from India.

The case marks the first detection of the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu on the continent.

The H5N1 strain of avian flu has swept the globe in recent years, killing billions of farmed and wild birds.

The child contracted the avian influenza A infection while in India and fell ill in March this year, according to Victorian health officials.

This happened simultaneously with another strain highly transmissible after avian flu was detected on an egg farm in the country. The virus has led to the ...

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows ...

In a statement, the Victoria Department of Health said the child had a severe infection but has fully recovered. Contact tracing revealed no evidence of ...

Avian Flu Infection: First laboratory tests showed that virus was an as yet unidentified H7 strain that probably came from the wild bird population and had ...

The H7N3 high pathogenic strain of avian influenza virus is the cause of a number of poultry deaths at an egg farm near Meredith.

A person in a white protective suit stands next to a lake holding a dead crane. Millions of wild birds have died in the avian influenza H5N1 outbreak sweeping ...