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

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 ...

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

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

Last week, avian influenza virus was detected for the first time in New Zealand. The presence of the H7N6 HPAI virus serotype ...

An Australian egg producer whose chickens were infected with bird flu has warned New Zealand farmers that it is likely to ...

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird ...

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

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

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 ...

Should I still be eating New Zealand-raised eggs and chicken? Yes, our poultry and eggs are safe. Just make sure you follow the usual rules around cooking and eating eggs and chicken. "Avian influenza ...

“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 ...