{"id":100993,"date":"2025-08-28T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100993\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:27:08","slug":"antarctic-expedition-to-search-for-bird-flu-on-heard-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100993\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic expedition to search for bird flu on Heard Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is the only continent not to have recorded the deadly strain of H5N1 which has killed millions of birds worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>One potential gateway for the virus to enter the country is Antarctica, where millions of migratory birds from all parts of the world congregate.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Australia&#8217;s icebreaker, RSV sets off to Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean to investigate if bird flu has reached the seabirds and mammals there.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Dr Julie McInnes, wildlife ecologist at the Australian Antarctic DivisionProducer: David Cook<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture, Agricultural and Farming Practice, Livestock Health and Welfare, Livestock Diseases, Environment, Nature, Animals, Birds, Wildlife Diseases, Science and Technology, Science, Biology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is the only continent not to have recorded the deadly strain of H5N1 which has killed millions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2655,6391,64,63,73486,1845,73489,73487,73488,137,39481,58654,29717,73491,73490,338],"class_list":["post-100993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-abc","tag-antarctica","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avian-bird-flu","tag-bird-flu","tag-dr-julie-mcinnes","tag-h5","tag-h5-n1","tag-health","tag-heard-island","tag-radio-national-breakfast","tag-sally-sara","tag-university-of-tasmania","tag-utas","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}