Bird Flu Outbreak 2024 Australia. A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has been found on a fourth poultry farm near melbourne near two other properties where the virus had already been. Bird flu was last detected in australia in 2020, when it was found on an egg farm south of ballarat.

For months, australia’s largest supermarkets have been restricting the sale of eggs to customers during an unprecedented bird flu outbreak. Australia is currently battling an outbreak of h7 bird flu, a relatively mild strain of the virus that has hit poultry farms in three states, forcing the mass culling of chickens and raising.