How is NZ preparing for the potential arrival of bird flu?
Yet another Australian state is waiting to hear whether it has a case of a deadly bird flu, after a sick giant petrel was found on a Noosa beach in Queensland. More than a dozen cases of a deadly strain of the H5-N1 virus have been detected since it arrived in Australia last month. In Aotearoa, as precaution, DOC has been vaccinating around 300 core breeding birds from five of the country's most threatened species. Biosecurity minister, Andrew Hoggard spoke to Lisa Owen.
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