{"id":824490,"date":"2026-07-26T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824490\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:42:10","slug":"first-h5-bird-flu-case-confirmed-on-sa-metro-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824490\/","title":{"rendered":"First H5 bird flu case confirmed on SA metro beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CSIRO says two native birds found dead on separate beaches in South Australia have tested positive for the H5 strain of bird flu.<\/p>\n

It is the first time a case has been confirmed on a SA metropolitan beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two additional cases were flagged yesterday as suspected cases.<\/a><\/p>\n

A greater crested tern was found near Robe on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, while another greater crested tern was found at a beach ramp near the Semaphore Surf Life Saving Club, north-west of Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Acting Australian chief veterinary officer Sam Hamilton said there have now been 20 confirmed or presumed positive detections of H5 bird flu in Australia.<\/p>\n

“All of these have been individual wild seabirds found in coastal locations,” Dr Hamilton said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“There remains no evidence of any mass mortality events and there are no detections in poultry or in our agricultural production system.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

There are now seven confirmed H5 bird flu cases in SA. (ABC Goldfields & Esperance: Tara de Landgrafft)<\/p>\n

“The risk to human health remains low.”<\/p>\n

SA Environment Minister Emily Bourke said on Saturday the bird found in Robe was located 4 kilometres from the location where the first Australian seabird confirmed to have the H5 strain of bird flu<\/a> was found.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, we are finding that these two cases are in our local [bird] species,” Ms Bourke said.<\/p>\n

Previous confirmed cases involved migratory birds from the sub-Antarctic region.<\/p>\n

South Australia’s first confirmed case was in a giant petrel found on the Fleurieu Peninsula<\/a> on June 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As of today, there are seven confirmed cases in SA, 10 in WA, and two in NSW.<\/p>\n

Queensland confirmed its first H5 bird flu case yesterday<\/a> after a dead petrel was found on Moreton Island, east of Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Before the two suspected cases were confirmed on Sunday, Premier Peter Malianauskas said the government’s policy in response to the bird flu remains the same.<\/p>\n

“We still don’t have any evidence of it being anywhere near poultry facilities or the poultry industry, which of course is the biggest risk that we’re keeping a close eye on,” Mr Malinauskas said.<\/p>\n

The premier said despite there being evidence of the bird flu in the native Australian bird population, he had received advice it cannot be “automatically assumed that means a spread throughout the population.”<\/p>\n

“But that’s nonetheless something we have to continue to monitor,” the premier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CSIRO says two native birds found dead on separate beaches in South Australia have tested positive for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,1845,398228,359412,137,398229],"class_list":["post-824490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bird-flu","tag-great-tern","tag-h5-bird-flu","tag-health","tag-native-bird-h5-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824490","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=824490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}