Avian Flu Update 2024. States have confirmed cases of avian influenza. Bird keepers are today (2 september) being reminded that there is now one month to go until new measures to better protect the poultry sector from future.
For two and a half years, a deadly strain of avian influenza often referred to as h5n1 has been ravaging poultry farms. The current strain of avian flu, h5n1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024, most recently in.