Australia is withdrawing all 24 staff from Macquarie Island before an expected bird flu die-off, and New Zealand's subantarctic islands lie 700km away.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging Pacific countries to prepare for avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, ...

Australia's largest chicken producer has warned shoppers could face higher poultry and egg prices as rising costs and the ...

The confirmation of Australia's first mainland death of a mammal from bird flu last week highlights New Zealand's challenge ...

Macquarie Island is not only home to a research station, but also thousands of elephant seals. These huge creatures are ...

So far this year, 85 cattle herds have had confirmed H5N1 infections, down sharply from 171 herd outbreaks tracked in all of ...

H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a dead dolphin in South Australia, state officials said Friday, the first case of its kind ...

Tasmania has recorded eight more detections of H5 bird flu, taking the state’s total to 33 as the virus continues to spread ...

The NSW Government has begun a rollout of targeted vaccinations for vulnerable species of birds to help protect them against ...

It’s been a turbulent year for the poultry industry – the nation wide outbreak of bird flu led to record high egg prices and ...

Confirmatory testing is continuing on little penguins found dead on King Island, with state laboratory results returning ...

Australia's already fragile sea lion population is facing a troubling new threat after H5N1 bird flu was detected in a ...