{"id":34028,"date":"2025-10-24T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/10\/24\/australia-says-h5-bird-flu-suspected-in-sub-antarctic-island\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:12:00","slug":"australia-says-h5-bird-flu-suspected-in-sub-antarctic-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/10\/24\/australia-says-h5-bird-flu-suspected-in-sub-antarctic-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia says H5 bird flu suspected in sub-Antarctic island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual levels of deaths of elephant seals.<br \/>&#8220;At this stage it is not a confirmed detection &#8230;  seeing signs consistent with H5 bird flu in wildlife on Heard Island is not unexpected,&#8221; the Agriculture Department said in a statement.<br \/>H5 bird flu has spread widely in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.<br \/>Australia remains the only continent free of the highly contagious viral flu, somewhat protected by its geography as it is off the migration routes of big birds such as geese that spread infection. 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