Bird Flu (H7N3) Detected at Fourth Victorian Farm

This comes amid the first death of H5N2 influenza virus globally, detected in a 59-year-old from Mexico.

A test tube labelled "Bird Flu" and eggs in a picture illustration on Jan. 14, 2023. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

A fourth case of highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected in Victoria, leading to a farm being placed in quarantine.

Tests have identified the H7N3 strain of avian influenza at a poultry farm within the Golden Plains Shire, west of Melbourne.