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Agriculture minister says Australia has prepared for incursion of bird flu: ‘no evidence of mass mortalities’
Julie Collins, the federal agriculture minster, is speaking now in Hobart.
She said the government has been preparing for the H5 bird flu, including work with the egg and poultry industries to “do everything we can do to mitigate” against any incursions:
It is certainly disappointing we have had further suspected migratory birds that have suspect positives. What I can say is that this is not unexpected, given of course that we do know that these migratory birds have can travel long distances. But I do want to reiterate that at this point in time they are single migratory birds and we have no evidence of any mass mortalities in any other birds or animals in Australia at this point in time.
It is certainly disappointing we have had further suspected migratory birds that have suspect positives. What I can say is that this is not unexpected, given of course that we do know that these migratory birds have can travel long distances.
But I do want to reiterate that at this point in time they are single migratory birds and we have no evidence of any mass mortalities in any other birds or animals in Australia at this point in time.
Tara Moriarty, the NSW agriculture minister, said at an earlier press conference there was no need for panic buying of eggs or poultry products.
Keep buying eggs, keep buying chicken. There is no spreading to our poultry in New South Wales. One bird that we are currently testing through the national lab to see what a strain of H5 it is stop we will continue to work with the federal government. This is of course a national problem with most of the birds testing positive so far in Western Australia, a couple in South Australia and now one … in New South Wales.
Keep buying eggs, keep buying chicken. There is no spreading to our poultry in New South Wales.
One bird that we are currently testing through the national lab to see what a strain of H5 it is stop we will continue to work with the federal government. This is of course a national problem with most of the birds testing positive so far in Western Australia, a couple in South Australia and now one … in New South Wales.
Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work
Here’s a bit from Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger:
It feels like a violation. We have always been very careful about where our music is placed, and this upends that consideration. Aside from that, it’s bad manners. A robot could never write Flame Trees, Highway to Hell, Took The Children Away or Am I Not Pretty Enough?
