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The Conversation (AU) · Australia · H5 bird flu reaches Australia, the last continent to fall, in a migratory skua
Explains the June 20 confirmation in a brown skua at Cape Le Grand near Esperance, what it means for native wildlife and poultry, and why Australia's island isolation delayed but did not prevent arrival via migratory birds.
“A single brown skua found sick near Esperance confirmed Australia's first H5N1, carried in by a migratory seabird despite the continent's isolation.”