Several strains of highly pathogenic bird flu have been found around the globe, and now in New Zealand. The virus found on ...

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

Thousands of chickens will be culled in Otago due to H7N6 strain of avian influenza, but Evie Batten and her internet famous ...

There are 40,000 chickens inside the shed where the high pathogenic bird flu has been identified.

Most of the 160,000 hens infected with bird flu on an Otago farm have now been culled. On Sunday night, the Ministry for ...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s first reported outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H7N6 in a free-range egg farm in Otago underscores the importance of continued vigilance and ...

New Zealand has halted all poultry exports after confirming its first case of bird flu on an egg farm in the southern region ...

Biosecurity New Zealand says it has placed strict movement controls on a commercial egg farm in Otago. Stuart Anderson, ...

“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 ...

NZ authorities have locked down and depopulated free-range hens on a remote Otago poultry farm, after detecting the country’s ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries is confident it has the resources it needs if the bird flu outbreak becomes more ...