00:02A community crammed in, keen to understand the impact of the deadly virus.
00:07They're going to potentially cause a lot of impact on our wildlife.
00:11So far it has been confirmed in wildlife, but South East poultry producers are prepared.
00:16We've got our biosecurity plans in place and we're doing what we can, but there's only so much we can
00:20control.
00:21At the local marina, hazmat suits and dead birds have become more common.
00:25Sadly, this is a greater crested turn and he would have fallen afoul of bird flu just by the way
00:32that he's fallen.
00:33Things seem to have escalated quite quickly. Once the bird's deceased, that's okay, it's deceased.
00:39It's the thought of what it goes through before it does pass away.
00:42This escalation causing distress to those reporting the cases.
00:46The closer you are, the more emotionally connected you are, the higher the impact on mental health.
00:51The rising number of bird flu cases initially a worry for tour operator Kylie Peel.
00:57It's sort of a little bit like COVID in a way that everyone's in a panic.
01:00But after last night, it was quite reassuring that we're going to be okay.
01:05While the residents here on the front line have some understanding of the potential impacts of bird flu,
01:10it's not quite clear yet just how devastating it'll be for bird life or the community here.
01:15It's also a spike in the eye that was found by the response to deer and the water face.
01:15It's also a good idea that they're going to have to be okay.
01:16It's very reasonable.
01:16But we're going to be in the opposite direction of the sand, man.
01:16We're going to be right now.
01:16But as soon as we're doing the camera, we're going to try to the camera.
01:16You can see a little bit of camera where the camera is different,
01:16We're going to a little bit too much, but the camera, we're going to look very well with the camera.
01:17It's pretty much more comfortable.
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