Should I still be eating New Zealand-raised eggs and chicken? Yes, our poultry and eggs are safe. Just make sure you follow the usual rules around cooking and eating eggs and chicken. "Avian influenza ...

The chief executive of the poultry farm at the centre of a highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak says his team is facing a ...

The virus has recently expanded in two ways: across regions and across species. Rather than being concentrated in Asia, bird ...

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird ...

Mainland Poultry CEO, John McKay says they're taking every precaution to ensure safe and secure disposal of chickens and waste from affected sheds. He says it's testing all other South Island farms, ...

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird ...

Mainland Poultry is in full response mode and actively addressing the avian influenza situation on one of its South Island farms, Hillgrove Farm. Today we have begun the humane culling of birds in the ...

The high pathogenic type of bird flu recently confirmed in a New Zealand egg farm was not H5N1 strain that people are most worried about and would pos ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries confirms all movement of materials to and from the second farm has halted, while tests are conducted. Deputy director general Stuart Anderson says the property has ...

New Zealand officials are investigating a second egg farm in the southern region of Otago for potential cases of bird flu.

A precautionary notice is being placed on a small free-range poultry farm after a number of hens died, the Ministry for ...