Raina MacIntyre
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 4 Aug
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Sadly, we do know that once the H5 bird flu is spreading in wildlife and the natural environment, it is not possible to avoid significant losses.
which is what we're starting to see now.
And so much of our wildlife is at risk.
Birds like the emu, cockatoos, galahs.
We've got some native parrots as well that are endangered.
And then obviously commercial poultry.
We set it up on the examination bench after we'd put our personal protective gear on to have a look at it.
Yeah, so it was a migratory seabird which had come probably from Heard Island, one of the sub-Antarctic islands that are heavily affected by bird flu.
You know, the virus had been in Antarctica before that, so we knew it was always a risk it was going to come through that route from Antarctica.
And really, once it reached Heard Island, it was just a matter of time before migratory birds brought it into the mainland.
It has.
You know, we've had multiple outbreaks of H7 type bird flu, which is a different type of bird flu.
you know, since the 1970s, but they've got more frequent in recent years, but those outbreaks were controlled.
If the poultry was culled, the outbreak came under control and then it went away.
But the H5N1, which is the strain, it's a particular mutation of that bird flu that's
arose in 2020 and it's spread around the world, it's actually causing a pandemic in birds.
And we haven't seen that sporadic pattern with this virus.
It's been just continually escalating.
It's never gone away.
And historically, H5N1 has never come into Australia because there's also this
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