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Australia reported a second case of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in Western Australia on Monday (June 22), after confirming its first over the weekend, as the government vowed to rein in the spread of the virus. - REUTERS
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00:00The testing at the CSIRO, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, has confirmed the H5
00:06high pathogenic avian influenza in the brown skew in Western Australia, but further testing
00:12has now confirmed that we also have the H5 bird flu in the northern giant Petrel found in the
00:17same region. So I want to reiterate that this is two birds that have been found with the H5 bird
00:24flu in an isolated area of Western Australia. So we'll be doing everything that we can do,
00:30working with industry and working with the sector, to try and keep this H5 bird flu out
00:35of our poultry system. Can we do that forever? We don't know the answer to that. That is a
00:40hypothetical, but we certainly have done all the preparedness. We've done a lot of work.
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