{"id":489071,"date":"2026-06-22T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489071\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:06:09","slug":"mpi-doc-officials-working-with-poultry-industry-after-avian-bird-flu-detected-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489071\/","title":{"rendered":"MPI, DOC officials working with poultry industry after avian bird flu detected in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhat we know about this particular strain of avian influenza virus is that it is moving around the world with birds as they move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnd some of these movements can be long-range movements between the northern and southern hemisphere, but some of these movements, like the skua bird, most likely came from Antarctica and went to Western Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Van Andel said they were working very closely with the poultry industry, the Department of Conservation and the health ministries to mitigate any impacts to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe can compare with our colleagues internationally how the disease has behaved there, but of course we can\u2019t say for sure what would happen here in New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat we know about this particular strain of avian influenza virus is that it is moving around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[74,85,29893,131519,35875,68643,2223,77,7191,22195,1379,305,134,43300,78,2454,11927,169200,29107,111,139,69,10711,6046,93742,1238,102,19135,80],"class_list":["post-489071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-after","tag-australia","tag-authorities","tag-avian","tag-bird","tag-closely","tag-confirmed","tag-detected","tag-disease","tag-doc","tag-flu","tag-have","tag-health","tag-impacts","tag-in","tag-industry","tag-landed","tag-minimise","tag-mpi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officials","tag-potential","tag-poultry","tag-serious","tag-with","tag-working","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}