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 ...

Should I still be eating New Zealand-raised eggs and chicken? Yes, our poultry and eggs are safe. Just make sure you follow the usual rules around cooking and eating eggs and chicken. "Avian influenza ...

While it looks like the tree is covered in leaves, the branches are filled with something highly damaging. Find out more.

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 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.

Biosecurity New Zealand has placed a second Otago farm on ‘a restricted place’ notice following the discovery of avian ...

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 ...

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