Australia is facing a growing threat from the H5N1 bird flu strain, a virus that could devastate the nation’s agricultural ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In 2021, avian influenza evolved into a new form – a new and remarkably lethal variant first found in ...

Scientists have issued warnings that the H5N1 avian influenza panzootic raging around the planet is likely to arrive in Australia in spring and summer via migratory birds. A panzootic is the ...

Hundreds of kilometres from the nearest supermarket, Indigenous rangers in Australia's remote north are working to keep eggs ...

When traditional conservation fails, science is using “assisted evolution” to give vulnerable wildlife a chance. Credit...Photo illustration by Lauren Peters-Collaer Supported by By Emily Anthes ...

CANBERRA, June 4 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a third poultry farm near Melbourne, but it is not the same strain that has spread globally and raised fears of ...