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

“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 ...

Mainland Poultry is in full response mode and actively addressing the avian influenza situation on one of its South Island farms, Hillgrove Farm. Today we have begun the humane culling of birds in the ...

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 ...

The number of chickens needing to be culled on an Otago farm has doubled to 80,000 after New Zealand's first case of case of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

The recent appearance of the H5N1 bird flu in pigs does raise viral reassortment concerns. Here's what we know about this ...