More Bird Flu Discovered in Australian State, Another 87,000 Birds to Be Culled

This is on top of 240,000 birds that will be impacted after the first case of H7N8 was discovered in NSW.

Another farm in NSW has been affected by bird flu. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Bird flu has been detected at a second farm in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia.

The High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) strain H7N8 was discovered amid “proactive surveillance” from the government’s biosecurity incident response team.