Now, Bird is enjoying baseball again in an unexpected place. The 31-year-old is playing for the Melbourne Aces in Australia, where he’s hitting .273 with seven home runs, 29 RBIs and an .867 OPS ...

The human case in Australia is the H5N1 strain, while the poultry farm cases involve the H7N3 strain. In the U.S., a second human case of bird flu was confirmed alongside outbreaks among dairy cattle.

Bird flu spreads to farmed animals from wild birds. The 2024 infections are Australia’s 10th outbreak since 1976, each contained and eradicated, the government has said.

Australia's recent declaration of being bird flu-free has proved short-lived, with the Victorian Agriculture Department announcing an outbreak at a farm in the state's north.

Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a ...

CANBERRA, July 2 (Reuters) - Good luck getting a late-morning McMuffin in Australia. McDonald's (MCD.N), opens new tab has cut breakfast service timings by 1-1/2 hours, the company said, after a ...

A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only countries free from the infection, but this will no doubt change.

Between 2013 and 2019, a team of paleontologists unearthed a G. newtoni fossil jackpot in southern Australia’s Lake Callabonna, discovering multiple skull fragments, a skeleton and an ...

Paleontologists Uncover Rare Skull of 500-Pound ‘Thunder Bird’ in Australia The most complete skull of the extinct, flightless bird ever found has revealed adaptations that might have made the ...

The H5N1 bird flu has been spreading widely among wild birds, poultry and other animals around the world for several years, and starting early last year became a problem in people and cows in the U.S.