South Australian authorities say they have five new suspected events of bird flu in the state, including a red fox in Osborne in metropolitan Adelaide.<\/p>\n
SA’s Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) included the fox in its latest bird flu update that detailed five new suspected bird flu “events”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Samples have been sent to a national testing facility in Geelong for confirmation.<\/p>\n
Other affected species reported today included at least one Australian raven at Robe, little penguin at Southend, greater crested tern at Coonalpyn and Pacific gull on Kangaroo Island.<\/p>\n
PIRSA said reporting was now based on events, which may involve one or more animals.<\/p>\n
More than 300 infection events have been recorded across the country since the first case was detected in June, with South Australia having the most at 195 confirmed events.<\/p>\n
H5N1 is an influenza virus and has been known to infect birds and mammals, including pets.<\/a> It has not been detected in Australian commercial poultry.<\/p>\n Efforts to protect native birds held in captivity have begun at conservation sites around South Australia, with Cleland Wildlife Park to vaccinate around 30 species in its aviaries<\/a> with federally approved vaccines. Phillip Island’s penguin population<\/a> is also undergoing a vaccine program.<\/p>\n Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian authorities say they have five new suspected events of bird flu in the state, including a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,125806,30140,9689,125805,121],"class_list":["post-80493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-australian-centre-for-disease-preparedness","tag-bird-flu","tag-csiro","tag-red-fox","tag-south-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}