Tuesday, June 23, 2026

First bird flu case in Australia leads to poultry farm lockdowns


Headline:  Canberra Daily, 6/22/2026
Australia’s largest poultry producer has plunged farms into lockdown after a deadly avian flu strain was discovered in the country. 
The H5N1 variant of the virus was confirmed in a sick brown skua found on a remote beach near Esperance in Western Australia, about 700km southeast of Perth. 
A second migratory bird, a giant petrel, has returned a preliminary positive result but further investigation is needed, while more than a dozen cases of sick or dead birds have been also been reported. 
Inghams Group announced on Monday that despite no detections in commercial poultry, it had made a decision to mitigate against any potential risks across all their WA sites.

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