New Zealand said on Monday that it had suspended all poultry exports after detecting a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza at a poultry farm on the South Island. Tests confirmed the H7N6 subtype of bird flu at a rural chicken farm in the Otago region,

New Zealand has placed strict movement controls on a commercial egg farm in the southern region of Otago after testing confirmed its chickens are infected with bird flu, but said it is not the strain causing concern globally.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm in New Zealand's South Island, authorities said on Monday (Dec 2), the first time the island nation has reported a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza.

A 'high pathogenic' type of bird flu was confirmed in an Otago egg farm over the weekend. The Ministry for Primary Industries has confirmed the virus is not the H5N1 strain that has been causing deaths in poultry,

New Zealand has halted all poultry exports after confirming its first case of bird flu on an egg farm in the southern region of Otago. Exports of poultry products worth about NZ$190 million (US$112 million) a year will cease until New Zealand can once again attest to being free of bird flu,

Biosecurity New Zealand says it has placed strict movement controls on a commercial egg farm in Otago. Stuart Anderson, Biosecurity New Zealand

Biosecurity New Zealand has placed strict movement controls on a commercial rural Otago egg farm, as the first case of high pathogenic avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, is confirmed in Aotearoa.