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Marcel Klaassen, Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Ecology, Deakin University

The first case of H5N1 bird flu in Australia has been confirmed. What does this mean?

On Saturday, a suspected case of deadly H5 bird flu, also known as high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, was confirmed in a brown skua.

This large seabird was found in Cape Le Grand National Park near Esperance, about 700 kilometres south-east of Perth in Western Australia.

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