More than one million chickens and ducks on Victorian farms will be euthanised in an effort to minimise the destruction caused by bird flu.
The NSW government confirmed on Wednesday that avian influenza had been picked up in the Hawkesbury district, north of Sydney, although the strain was different to that detected in Victoria. The H7N8 strain found in NSW was believed to be a "spill-over" event, possibly from wild birds. NSW officials engaged the state's emergency biosecurity incident plan, sending the farm into quarantine and triggering movement controls in the area.
Six of the infected properties in Victoria are confirmed to have the H7N3 strain of bird flu and one infected property near Terang has the H7N9 strain. However, the H5N1 strain that has infected billions of wild and farmed animals globally and raised fears of human transmission has not been detected.
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