SYDNEY: Australia is checking for any sign of “entrenched” H5 bird flu in its wildlife after detecting the country’s first two cases, the government said Monday. Scientists confirmed at the weekend they had found the disease in a migratory sea bird, a brown skua, in remote Western Australia. Tests from another sick bird in the same area, a giant petrel, have now verified that it also had the H5 strain, officials said.

Agriculture minister says no evidence of mass mortality or infection in poultry as WA authorities say a second bird is sick and being tested

Migratory seabird known as brown skua tests positive for avian influenza