19/10/2024
Environmental officers will soon be vaccinating wild populations of endangered animals against an inevitable outbreak of deadly bird flu, breeding captive “insurance” populations of threatened species and picking up carcasses to limit the spread of the disease.
These are the unprecedented actions Australian governments are preparing for under a new $100 million funding package to prepare for what experts say is an inevitable outbreak of a deadly variant of bird flu, known as H5N1, which has decimated wildlife on every continent except Australia.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/wildlife-emergency-australia-prepares-for-bird-flu-onslaught-20241015-p5kicw.html?
A deadly strain of bird flu has swept the globe, and Australia is the last uninfected continent. Preparations for the carnage have just begun.
