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Excerpt from cosmosmagazine.comConcern is rising in Australia about the global outbreak of bird flu.
Today in Victoria, the Government has advised preliminary tests have confirmed the presence of avian influenza on an egg farm near Meredith, following an investigation of poultry deaths. The farm has been placed under quarantine.
This comes after yesterday’s announcement by the Victorian Department of Health that a child had made a full recovery after contracting the H5N1 virus overseas.
The egg farm preliminary results indicate that it is not the much feared highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A H5N1 virus clade 2.3.4.4b, according to a statement made by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
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