{"id":848036,"date":"2026-08-08T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848036\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:58:13","slug":"avian-flu-diary-australia-bird-flu-detection-in-wild-birds-doubles-in-less-than-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848036\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Flu Diary: Australia: Bird Flu Detection in Wild Birds Doubles in Less Than 4 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#19,284<\/p>\n

On August 4th, the official count of H5 positive birds in Australia broke 100 (n=102), today that number stands at 215, with the backlog of uninvestigated bird deaths continuing to rise.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

As of 3.00pm AEST, 8 August 2026, Australia has 215 confirmed detections of H5 bird flu in wild birds.<\/p>\n

10 in Western Australia (WA)147 in South Australia (SA)\u00a04 in New South Wales (NSW)1 in Queensland (QLD)53 in Victoria (VIC).We’ve two brief updates from DAFF<\/a>:
<\/a>8 August 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Attributable to Australian Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Beth Cookson:<\/p>\n

Testing at CSIRO\u2019s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) has confirmed a further 2 positive detections in New South Wales, one greater crested tern near Narooma and one greater crested tern near Wentworth.<\/p>\n

An additional 10 positive detections have also been confirmed in Victoria. These were all from greater crested terns in south-west Victoria and Clyde in south-east Melbourne.<\/p>\n

There have now been 215 confirmed or presumed\u202fpositive detections of H5 bird flu in Australia, based on samples tested.<\/p>\n

There\u202fremain\u202fno detections in poultry or in our agricultural production system.<\/p>\n

The risk to human health\u202fremains\u202flow.<\/p>\n

8 August 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Attributable to Australian Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Beth Cookson:<\/p>\n

Testing at CSIRO\u2019s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) has confirmed a further 28 positive detections in South Australia.<\/p>\n

The new confirmed cases are all in wild seabirds, including 15 greater crested terns from the Limestone Coast (5 at Robe, 4 at Port MacDonnell, 2 at Beachport, 1 at Southend, 1 at Pelican Point, 1 at Cape Douglas, and 1 at Eight Mile Creek); 11 greater crested terns on Kangaroo Island (3 at Haines, 6 at Seal Bay, 1 at Penneshaw, and 1 at Vivonne Bay); and 2 silver gulls on the Limestone Coast (Port MacDonnell and Robe).<\/p>\n

There have now been 203 confirmed or presumed\u202fpositive detections of H5 bird flu in Australia.<\/p>\n

There\u202fremain\u202fno detections in poultry or in our agricultural production system.<\/p>\n

The risk to human health\u202fremains\u202flow.<\/p>\n

Thus far, no poultry, livestock, or marine mammals have been detected with the virus on the Australian mainland.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 #19,284 On August 4th, the official count of H5 positive birds in Australia broke 100 (n=102), today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-848036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848036","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=848036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}