August 15, 2026 — 8:00pm
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The NSW government has identified little penguins and critically endangered regent honeyeaters as priority species for bird flu vaccination, after the state’s fifth case of the deadly virus was confirmed on Saturday in a greater crested tern found dead near Eden on the South Coast.
At least 50 birds of the same species died in a mass mortality event in South Australia earlier this month.
With increasing deaths and the detection of the virus in a “Typhoid Mary” superspreader species, attention is starting to shift…
Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU
