Chris Spear
speaker
575 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Chris Spear’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Paul, welcome back to the briefing.
I want to start with the basics.
What exactly is bird flu and how does it spread?
I want to talk about some of the other animals that it's affecting or affected.
Is it usual for a bird flu to impact other mammals like dairy cows, dolphins, dogs, cats, even elephant seal pups?
You know, we've heard of 13,000 dying on Heard Island as a result.
Is that normal for bird flu to have such widespread ramifications across other species that aren't birds?
I want to ask you, up until the weekend, Australia was, you know, the only continent that was free of this particular strain.
It was kind of celebrated as the only continent that was free of it.
That's changed now.
Was that pure luck or was there something that we had done to effectively slow it coming here?
I want to bring it back to just the weekend for a moment longer.
The Federal Agriculture Minister confirmed that a migratory bird found near Esperance in Western Australia had died as a result of this strain of the bird flu.
What does that tell us about how the strain of bird flu arrived in Australia?
I understand this is also going to have an impact on our native bird populations and threatened species like the Tasmanian devil.
How are they in the firing line?
I want to talk about the impact on us as humans here.
Does it pose a risk for us from a consumption standpoint?
So I'm thinking if chicken or something were to be infected with this virus and we were to eat it, could we get sick in that way?
Or is it something that needs to be transmitted and mutated for it to impact us?
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