{"id":501943,"date":"2026-06-20T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:36:08","slug":"australia-reports-first-case-of-h5-bird-flu-virus-spreads-to-every-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501943\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia reports first case of H5 bird flu, virus spreads to every continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have detected the H5 strain of bird flu in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/australia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia<\/a> for the first time, meaning the highly contagious variant has now spread to every continent.Australian Agriculture Minister Julie Collins told a press conference on Saturday that the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/disease?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disease<\/a> had been found in a migratory sea bird, a brown skua, in remote Western Australia, and the result was confirmed by the national science agency.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Samples from another sick bird, a giant petrel, had also shown as a suspected positive result, she said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Australia was previously the only continent where the H5 strain, which can devastate poultry and wild bird populations, had not been detected.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhilst disappointing, this is not unexpected, given the global spread of the H5 bird flu,\u201d Collins told reporters in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI can confirm there is still no evidence of any mass mortalities at this time, nor is there any evidence of infection in any poultry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have detected the H5 strain of bird flu in Australia for the first time, meaning the highly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33147,972,27356,196247,23177,163,85,46,230773,65259],"class_list":["post-501943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-australia","tag-canberra","tag-h5","tag-h5n1","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-julie-collins","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}