Outbreak Watch

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The most significant developments across every tracker, newest first.

• 8 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  NSW records its first cases in native birds: two greater crested terns, one near Narooma on the south coast and one near Wentworth in far west NSW. The Wentworth bird, at the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers, is the furthest-inland detection in Australia and the first in the Murray-Darling Basin

  NSW GovernmentNSW
• 7 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  Victoria becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to order a mandatory poultry lockdown: owners of 50 or more birds in metropolitan Melbourne and coastal areas must house them for an initial 14 days. The order follows 20 further Victorian detections and new localities at Yambuk, Apollo Bay and Clyde, heading east across the state

  Agriculture VictoriaVIC
• 7 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  The national tally reaches 155 confirmed detections as at 11am AEST, a rise of 32 in a day and the largest single-day movement of the outbreak. All 32 are in South Australia, taking the state to 119

  DAFFAU
• 6 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  H5 reaches a terrestrial bird in Australia for the first time, a magpie in Victoria, seven weeks after the virus arrived on the last continent to be reached. Every earlier Australian detection was a seabird or a shorebird

  DAFFAustralia
• 5 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  Australia abandons eradication of H5 in wildlife and activates a cost-shared national management agreement, six weeks after the virus arrived on the last continent to be reached

  Farm WeeklyAustralia
• 4 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  The ACCC extends its pause on enforcing free-range egg labelling, so producers housing hens indoors for biosecurity can keep the label, as the regulator warns the risk to domestic poultry is growing

  ABC RuralAU
• 3 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  MILESTONE: CSIRO testing confirms Australia's first mass mortality event in wildlife, in greater crested terns at Baudin Rocks. The national tally reaches 78 and the Agriculture Minister warns Australians to expect more spread and larger numbers of wildlife affected

  ABC NewsSA
• 3 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  A second suspected mass mortality event is reported in Victoria, a cluster of dead and sick terns in the Glenelg River estuary near Nelson and across Lawrence Rocks, with results pending

  The GuardianVIC
• 3 Aug 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  A petrel is confirmed in the Coorong, a Ramsar wetland of national importance for waterbirds, and six terns on the Pages Islands, home to the largest breeding colony of the endangered Australian sea lion

  PIRSASA