{"id":12018,"date":"2024-12-03T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2024-12-03T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:04:21","slug":"high-pathogenic-bird-flu-found-on-chicken-farm-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12018","title":{"rendered":"High pathogenic bird flu found on chicken farm: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Warning: This article includes details on the mass culling of animals<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The high pathogenic avian influenza &#8211; otherwise known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/country\/535429\/country-s-first-case-of-high-pathogenic-bird-flu-found-on-otago-egg-farm\">bird flu &#8211; has been found on a free range chicken farm in North Otago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laying hens foraging outside were thought to have been infected with the H7N6 strain through a low pathogenic virus from wild waterfowl.<\/p>\n<p>So how will this affect Kiwi consumers? And could it spread to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/528085\/bird-of-the-year-hoiho-yellow-eyed-penguin-named-2024-winner\">beloved native birds<\/a>? Here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<h3>Where and when was bird flu discovered in New Zealand?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to media on Monday, Minister for Biosecurity and Food Safety Andrew Hoggard gave a timeline of the virus&#8217;s emergence in this country.<\/p>\n<p>A chicken farmer on Hillgrove Egg Farm, belonging to Mainland Poultry, near Moeraki &#8211; halfway between Dunedin and Oamaru &#8211; noticed birds falling ill on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He called a local vet, who treated the birds with antibiotics. But as more began to die, the farmer notified the Ministry for Primary Industries on Friday. Testing teams arrived at the farm on Saturday, and the results came back positive later that day, and confirmed it was the H7N6 strain. The farm was locked down on Sunday, and testing and tracing of movement continues.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/535456\/all-poultry-exports-on-hold-until-nz-free-of-highly-pathogenic-bird-flu\">all poultry exports are on hold<\/a> until the country is free of the highly pathogenic bird flu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: This article includes details on the mass culling of animals The high pathogenic avian influenza &#8211; otherwise known as\u00a0bird flu &#8211; has been found on a free range chicken farm in North Otago. Laying hens foraging outside were thought to have been infected with the H7N6 strain through a low pathogenic virus from wild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12020,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions\/12020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}