Australia is grappling with its largest bird flu outbreak, which has led to the culling of over 1 million chickens across multiple farms. The outbreak, which began in May, has now spread to 10 farms, including a second farm in Sydney's Hawkesbury region. The virus has prompted strict biosecurity measures, including lockdowns and exclusion zones. A commercial egg farm in New South Wales will cull 240,000 birds, while another farm in Sydney's north is under a biosecurity emergency. Another 100,000 chickens are set to be culled on a farm in Sydney, and about 87,000 birds will be killed at a second farm in the Hawkesbury region, which is under a 1.5-kilometre lockdown.
A highly pathogenic strain of #birdflu has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, increasing the total number of infected facilities in Australia to 10. https://t.co/Ttmrx5A6ne
Bird flu detected at second farm in NSW More than 80,000 birds will be culled in New South Wales after bird flu was found at a second farm in the Hawkesbury region. The property has been in lockdown since Wednesday. CSIROโs Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness said theโฆ https://t.co/eTMyhuaNIB
A second outbreak of bird flu has been detected at a commercial egg farm in Sydney's Hawkesbury region. A 1.5-kilometre lockdown zone was established around a farm after the virus was discovered there on Wednesday. #9News DETAILS: https://t.co/OGcZcBTCBj https://t.co/iOywFOO0Iz
More than 80,000 birds will be culled in New South Wales after bird flu was found at a second farm in the Hawkesbury region. https://t.co/4uh2Bxjn7N
A second chicken farm at Hawkesbury on the outskirts of Sydney has been infected with bird flu, prompting a mass culling of hundreds of thousands of birds. But the state government says there is no threat to supplies of chickens and eggs in our supermarkets. #9News https://t.co/FW4QzfkY7s
A highly infectious strain of avian influenza has been detected at a second Sydney farm. FULL STORY: https://t.co/SIKQoyRKJt https://t.co/PRBhUXaVpb
A second farm in NSW's Hawkesbury region has confirmed the presence of avian flu with about 87,000 birds to be killed at the property over the coming week. https://t.co/J6VPY0KWGY
A second outbreak of bird flu has been detected at a commercial egg farm in Sydney's Hawkesbury region. #9News https://t.co/vdh69Oeom0
Australia is slaughtering 1 million chickens because of bird flu. Scientists are already testing bird flu injections on cows. The media is in full scare mongering mode. I'm not falling for this.
We are being urged to stay calm as the bird flu outbreak hits close to home, with a biosecurity emergency declared on a poultry egg farm in Sydneyโs north. MORE ๐ https://t.co/M5Bs1WRpdE https://t.co/M1ltMmdUCI
A strain of high pathogenicity avian influenza was detected on a poultry farm in the Hawkesbury this week, as other subtypes of bird flu have made its way across the country. https://t.co/I06TGGysov
Australia is putting farms on LOCKDOWN and have slaughter over 1 million chickens because of bird flu. Do you think this is justified?
Australia ๐ฆ๐บ More than 1 million farmed birds will be killed as a result of the spread of bird flu and therefore raising concerns of egg supply shortages. https://t.co/bRucSXPRdx
BREAKING: Australia is putting several farms under LOCKDOWN and has slaughtered over 1 million chickens as bird flu has been detected.
Australia: Another 100,000 chickens are set to be culled on a farm in Sydney due to an alleged outbreak of "bird flu". More than a million Australian chickens have already been culled, leading to egg and poultry shortages. Is "bird flu" just a pretext to deliberately induceโฆ https://t.co/hbg2VXnHbb
A commercial egg farm in NSW ravaged by bird flu will have to kill 240,000 birds to prevent the spread of the contagious flu after entering lockdown on Wednesday. https://t.co/tSQwmOdwad
๐ฆ๐บ1 MILLION BIRDS TO BE KILLED IN AUSTRALIAN BIRD FLU OUTBREAK The country is facing its largest outbreak of the virus after it was detected at a 7th farm in Melbourne. The outbreak began in May and has continued to spread despite strict control measures being put in place.โฆ https://t.co/qH2kw4itZ5
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