
With Victoria's avian influenza outbreak over, what has been learned?
ABCA farmer whose operation was impacted by the response to Australia's largest avian influenza outbreak is warning of more frequent outbreaks and egg shortages. "Ten thousand birds per hectare is the sort of free range we're talking about — inevitably you're exposing these birds to the outside world in an uncontrolled environment and with such high stocking density, it's really easy for disease to come through," Mr Humpage said. Looking ahead Ms Parkinson said the government's response to the outbreak "wasn't bad" but improvements could always be made. More than a million birds killed Agriculture Victoria said 1.3 million birds were killed across eight Victorian properties to prevent the spread of the two high pathogenicity bird flu strains. "Victoria's response included undertaking extensive surveillance with testing of 38,000 birds taking place," Dr Bell said.
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