The chief executive of the poultry farm at the centre of a highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak says his team is facing a ...

The virus has recently expanded in two ways: across regions and across species. Rather than being concentrated in Asia, bird ...

Hong Kong on Tuesday suspended import of poultry meat and products from several parts of the United States and New Zealand, ...

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird ...

The high pathogenic avian influenza - otherwise known as bird flu - has been found on a free range chicken farm in North Otago. Laying hens foraging outside were thought to have been infected with the ...

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Mainland Poultry CEO, John McKay says they're taking every precaution to ensure safe and secure disposal of chickens and waste from affected sheds. He says it's testing all other South Island farms, ...

Mainland Poultry is in full response mode and actively addressing the avian influenza situation on one of its South Island farms, Hillgrove Farm.

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird ...

The Government has agreed to fund new courthouses for both Whanganui and Papakura to help improve access to justice and court ...

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 ...