Giuseppe MichieliPhylogenetic and Molecular Characterization of a Novel #Reassortant High-Pathogenicity Avian #Influenza #H7N6 Virus Detected in #NZ #Poultry, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/11/phylogenetic-and-molecular.html
zl2todOf course it's airborne.
AI6YR BenOfficial notice from New Zealand
"Biosecurity New Zealand has placed strict movement controls on a commercial, free-range egg farm in a remote part of rural Otago. The farm is managed by Mainland Poultry. The controls come after testing confirmed a high pathogenic strain of avian influenza, H7N6, in chickens on the farm.
While it is not the H5N1 strain circulating in wildlife around the world, we are taking the find seriously."
Oooh, look, new bird flu has dropped! H7N6 in New Zealand
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-reports-first-case-h7-bird-flu-2024-12-02/
Bob LeFridge 
There have been more bird deaths at a different farm -- not one of the six which were originally isolated. The ODT describes it as a "small free-range farm near Dunedin" containing 6,000 chickens.
I wish they'd let us know the location.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/measures-second-farm-after-birds-found-dead
#NZ – High pathogenicity avian #influenza #H7N6 viruses (#poultry) (Inf. with) – Immediate notification
Source: WOAH, A H7N6 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus has been confirmed on a free-range commercial layer chicken farm in East Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. The sequencing of the virus is similar to a low pathogenicity avian influenza strain previously identified in New Zealand wild birds. Movement controls have been implemented. A 10 km…
#NZ – High pathogenicity avian #influenza #H7N6 viruses (#poultry) (Inf. with) – Immediate notification
Source: WOAH, A H7N6 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus has been confirmed on a free-range commercial layer chicken farm in East Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. The sequencing…
#NZ, Strict #biosecurity measures in place on #chicken #farm {affected by #H7N6 #birdflu virus}
Source: Biosecurity New Zealand, Biosecurity New Zealand has placed strict movement controls on a commercial rural Otago egg farm, after testing confirmed a high pathogenic strain of avian influenza in chickens that has likely developed from interactions with local waterfowl and wild birds. "Tests from the Mainland Poultry managed farm have identified a high pathogenic H7N6…
#NZ, Strict #biosecurity measures in place on #chicken #farm {affected by #H7N6 #birdflu virus}
Source: Biosecurity New Zealand, Biosecurity New Zealand has placed strict movement controls on a commercial rural Otago egg farm, after testing confirmed a high pathogenic strain of avian influenz…
BIRD FLU REPORTING
Biosecurity NZ advises anyone seeing three or more sick or dead wild birds in a group, to report it immediately to the exotic pest and disease hotline on:
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#Biosecurity #NZ #BirdFlu #H7N6
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#H7N6 highly pathogenic avian #influenza in #Mozambique, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2024.2321993
-- The #zoonotic #potential of this new virus should be considered. #H7N2, #H7N3, #H7N7 viruses have all been previously associated with #conjunctivitis and/or #respiratory symptoms in #humans while in 2003 in the Netherlands a fatal case occurred following an infection with H7N7.
#SouthAfrica - #Influenza A #H7N6 viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-) - Immediate notification, #WOAH: https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5245 #epizootic #enzootic #zoonoses #EIDs #update #report #veterinary