16 July 2026
Testing at CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness has confirmed a further positive detection of H5 high pathogenicity avian influenza (bird flu) in a petrel, found at Hawks Nest, New South Wales.

There have now been 15 confirmed or presumed positive detections of H5 bird flu in Australia.

All of these have been individual wild seabirds found in coastal locations. All but one have been wild migratory seabirds.

There?remains no evidence of any mass mortality events and there are no detections in poultry or in our agricultural production system.

The risk to human health remains low.