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• 10 Sep 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  South Australia reports 285 confirmed events and three new detections: a little penguin at West Beach on Adelaide's suburban coast, the first penguin event in the metropolitan area, a fluttering shearwater at Carpenter Rocks, and a silver gull at Raukkan on the southern shore of Lake Alexandrina, the first event on the Murray's terminal lake. The state's public map still summed to 282, its newest record a greater crested tern at Parham on Gulf St Vincent, and the federal dashboard read 281. The statement gives 2,098 tests this year and 10,146 hotline reports since June.

  SA Government via Glam AdelaideSA
• 9 Sep 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  Tasmania names three new localities and reaches 33 events, its first update in five days. A greater crested tern on Flinders Island is the first detection on the island, so both major Bass Strait island groups now carry the virus. A forest raven at Mawbanna in the north west and a peregrine falcon at Pipers River in the north complete the batch, the second bird of prey recorded in the state. The figure puts Tasmania three events ahead of the federal dashboard, which had been two ahead of it the day before.

  NRE TasmaniaTAS
• 8 Sep 2026
  Ebola
  The World Health Organization says it needs 5,000 more health workers to staff Ebola treatment in the DR Congo, on top of the 4,000 already working inside the centres. Close to 1,400 beds now exist across 59 treatment centres and about 1,600 more are needed to reach a target of 3,000. Patients are now arriving from villages far beyond Bunia, which the agency calls a clear sign the outbreak is spreading and its response must adapt. A revised six month response plan launched on 4 September is costed at 1.3 billion United States dollars.

  WHODRC
• 8 Sep 2026
  Ebola
  The weekly situation report shows the national case count falling for the first time, down 5 percent over 21 days, with deaths down 10 percent. The decline is entirely Ituri's, where cases fell 18 percent, while North Kivu rose 47 percent to its highest level of the outbreak. More striking is where people die: community deaths rose 21 percent in the latest week while deaths inside treatment centres fell 30 percent, taking the community share to 75 percent. The agency concludes that adding beds alone may not be enough.

  WHO AFRODRC
• 8 Sep 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  The spread of bird flu into two urban foxes prompts the first published call for city residents, rather than farmers, to take up pest control. Some Melbourne suburbs carry 16 to 23 foxes a square kilometre, two to three times the rural rate, against a national population of about 1.7 million. The Australian chief veterinary officer calls the fox detections a concerning development but not unexpected, and repeats that there is no evidence of mammal to mammal transmission in Australia. The risk described is foxes moving infected carcasses, not foxes spreading the virus themselves.

  ABC RuralNational
• 7 Sep 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  The national dashboard reaches 498 events and overtakes the states. It moved 484 to 498 in one publication, its second single jump in four days, absorbing the eight event South Australian gap along with six new events. South Australia and New South Wales now match the Commonwealth exactly, while Tasmania sits two behind it and Victoria publishes no count at all. The department has issued no statement of its own since 28 August.

  DAFFNational
• 6 Sep 2026
  Ebola
  North Kivu matches Ituri for new cases for the first time, 39 each, and passes a thousand confirmed cases of its own. The report records 6,686 cases and 3,226 deaths after 82 new cases and 51 deaths, and the case fatality ratio turns back up to 48.3 percent. North Kivu's treatment centres reach 123 percent of capacity, the highest this outbreak has recorded, with some patients held in facilities that do not meet the standard. Vaccination with Ervebo is suspended in Bas-Uele after the stock at Buta runs out.

  INSPDRC
• 4 Sep 2026
  Ebola
  A sixty-first health zone is touched, Kayna in North Kivu, the first new zone in six reports. Kayna sits on the Butembo to Goma road, the route south toward Goma and the Rwandan border. The report records 6,522 cases and 3,134 deaths after 86 new cases and 39 deaths, with the case fatality ratio unchanged at 48.1 percent. North Kivu takes 36 percent of the day's cases off 15 percent of the running total.

  INSPDRC
• 4 Sep 2026
  H5N1 Bird Flu
  Victoria confirms H5 in a red fox found dead at Torquay, its first mammal case and the first anywhere in Australia outside South Australia. A dolphin found dead at Lorne is suspected but not confirmed. Victoria's acting chief veterinary officer says scavenging pests have not generally been shown to spread the virus and that the greater risk is of foxes moving infected carcasses.

  Agriculture VictoriaVIC