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Adrian Black and Melissa Meehan

Devastating bird flu strain 'on Australia's doorstep'

Victorian farmers are bracing for the arrival of a new strain of deadly bird flu. (HANDOUT/DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE ACTION)

Farmers are battening down the hatches, anticipating the arrival of a deadly bird flu strain which threatens an already-disrupted poultry industry and the very existence of some endangered species.

With egg purchase limits still in place at major supermarkets in multiple states and more than two million commercial birds culled nationwide due to H7N3, farmers are being warned to prepare for the arrival of the deadliest strain of the flu, H5N1.

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