But this year’s prevailing strain H3N2 – which has been dubbed “Aussie flu” – is known to be particularly vicious and strong. In the UK, 149 people have so far died and last week 4,500 ...

Farmers are cautiously relieved with the announcement a strain of bird flu has been eradicated in Australia, as they begin to ...

Avian influenza first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an ...

The combined outbreaks have been the largest in Australian history ... Australia’s egg industry was affected by a bird flu outbreak, which has since been contained. The outbreak reduced the ...

However, an Australian bird flu guru says the US death hasn’t shifted the needle on pandemic risk. Highly pathogenic avian influenza arose in 1997. Human infections are very rare because birds ...

These include- A(H1N1), often known and swine flu, a second strain called A(H3N2) which was previously dubbed Australian flu, and a third flu virus known as Influenza B in smaller numbers.

The NSW outbreak did infect one farm in the ACT, which had a link to one of the Hawkesbury properties. In July, animals in a ...