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Are we prepared for if bird flu starts spreading between humans?

Australia is well placed to quickly create a vaccine should a strain of bird flu infect the human population, according to experts.

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Bird flu Victoria: 400,000 chickens killed as bird flu spreads | news com au — Australia s leading news site

Bird flu Victoria: 400,000 chickens killed as bird flu spreads | news com au — Australia s leading news site
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Bird flu found in Victorian egg farm, returned traveller

Two separate instances of avian influenza (bird flu) were reported in Victoria yesterday — one in a child who returned from overseas, and the other in the form of an outbreak on an egg farm.

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Bird Flu Australia: Separate low pathogen bird-flu outbreak detected on WA poultry farm

A less dangerous strain of the disease was detected in Western Australia today.

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Avian influenza – bird flu – detected at Victorian poultry farm

Agriculture Victoria says it is investigating a number of poultry deaths at an egg farm near Meredith, south of Ballarat.

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