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

The owner of an Otago farm at the centre of a birdflu outbreak said further testing results for its farm and an unconnected second farm in Dunedin are due on Thursday. The culling of 80,000 hens is ...

Hong Kong on Tuesday suspended import of poultry meat and products from several parts of the United States and New Zealand, ...

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

A leading virologist says she will not be surprised if the Otago bird flu outbreak continues to spread similar to a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...