To try to prevent the further spread of the virus, around 80,000 layer hens across two sheds will be humanely culled using ...

“Work started this morning to humanely cull chickens in two sheds on a farm managed by Mainland Poultry where testing confirmed cases of an H7N6 subtype of avian influenza in birds,” Biosecurity New ...

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

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 ...

A highly pathogenic H7N6 bird flu has been detected in New Zealand for the first time, putting the country’s poultry industry ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A precautionary notice is being placed on a small free-range poultry farm after a number of chickens died, MPI says.

New Zealand officials are investigating a second egg farm in the southern region of Otago for potential cases of bird flu.

A family member of two workers at the Mainland Poultry free-range farm at the centre of New Zealand’s first confirmed case of ...