Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows test tube labelled "Bird Flu", eggs and Australia flag CANBERRA (Reuters) - A highly pathogenic ...

SINGAPORE, May 23 (Reuters) - A new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm in Australia's southeastern Victoria state, officials said on Thursday, a day after ...

CANBERRA, June 4 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a third poultry farm near Melbourne, but it is not the same strain that has spread globally and raised fears of ...

A Victorian farmer who had to kill more 500,000 chickens to control an outbreak of bird flu has detailed the financial and emotional cost of the "devastating" ordeal. Phillip Szepe and his wife, Jane ...

The first human case of avian influenza (bird flu) in Australia was reported yesterday in Victoria. A child acquired the H5N1 strain of the virus in India and became ill upon returning home to ...