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Shocking number of Aussie birds face 'extreme' flu risk
Five species are assessed as unable to survive where H5 bird flu occurs, while hundreds more face severe population declines, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Australia's environment department released data showing nearly 1 in 5 native bird and mammal species face high, very high, or extreme risk from H5N1 bird flu. Five species are at extreme risk of extinction.
- Environment Minister Murray Watt confirmed on Monday that H5N1 is transmitting in Australia after a mass death of terns in South Australia over the weekend. The virus has appeared on every other continent over five years.
- More than 2,000 native birds and mammals have been scored for vulnerability. The government committed $113 million to surveillance and response, though Invasive Species Council CEO Jack Gough argued funding to protect wildlife has "gone backwards."
- In tourist town Robe, South Australia, residents grapple with the virus after detections at Baudin Rocks. Local ecotourism owner Kylie Peel expressed concern about tourism impacts but said experts believe international visitation may remain stable.
- Watt stated vaccinating wild birds is unrealistic because "it requires two doses of vaccines, and it's hard enough to catch these birds once, let alone twice." The government is funding captive breeding programs to protect threatened species.
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Bird flu: a conspiracy
I have just read the excellently alarmist piece by Mandy Nolan about so-called ‘bird flu’. You have to ask: are the federal government and state bureaucracies conditioning the nation for another lockdown scam, this time based on avian flu being found in strategically ‘discovered’ dead native birds from Western Australia to Queensland? No doubt these dead birds have been tested with the discredited PCR test used in the last ‘plandemic’. Anton Van…
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- 38% of the sources lean Left, 37% of the sources are Center
38% Left
L 38%
C 37%
R 25%
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