But this year’s prevailing strain H3N2 – which has been dubbed “Aussie flu” – is known to be particularly vicious and strong. In the UK, 149 people have so far died and last week 4,500 ...

There has been a bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in Victoria, days after the federal government announced it had ...

Australia's recent declaration of being bird flu-free has proved short-lived, with an outbreak confirmed at a farm in ...

The combined outbreaks have been the largest in Australian history ... Australia’s egg industry was affected by a bird flu outbreak, which has since been contained. The outbreak reduced the ...

Authorities are racing to contain a positive detection of bird flu at a farm in northern Victoria just days after last year’s outbreak was declared “eradicated”.

The Melbourne-based company on Tuesday posted what chief executive Paul McKenzie described as a robust set of half-year ...

Australian researchers are scanning the frozen wilderness of Antarctica for signs of deadly disease because the arrival of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is considered a matter of when ...

These include- A(H1N1), often known and swine flu, a second strain called A(H3N2) which was previously dubbed Australian flu, and a third flu virus known as Influenza B in smaller numbers.