THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it banned imports of poultry and wild birds from New Zealand (NZ) after an outbreak of Type H7N6 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly known as ...

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New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago.

New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu ...

New Zealand has successfully contained the first instance of the H7N6 avian flu strain in the nation, discovered at a chicken ...

New Zealand (NZ) officials said that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm this month. Mary van Andel, chief veterinary officer at the ...

(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago. Farms linked to the original site, which tested positive for ...

New Zealand has said the outbreak of H7N6 bird flu virus has been contained to a single site in the southern region of Otago.

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The CDC said that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated but the risk remains low to the public as no human-to-human transmission has been documented. (Scri ...