Avian influenza has been detected on a second poultry farm in the Hawkesbury district, northwest of Sydney. A positive result for the H7N8 strain at the second property was confirmed by the CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, NSW Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty said on Saturday. The farm is within the restricted biosecurity zone 1.5km from the original infected NSW farm site detected on Wednesday.
” The highly contagious and deadly H7N8 strain had killed 8000 birds at the mixed barnyard and free-range poultry facility in 48 hours, the NSW government said in a statement on Thursday. A control order to depopulate the farm of its birds “in a humane manner” and to securely dispose of the remains was also issued. It will take up to a week for 240,000 birds to be destroyed at the first farm and about 87,000 birds to be culled at the second.
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