H5N1 bird flu spreads across Australia: what you need to know

Human deaths from H5N1 are rare but possible, with children particularly vulnerable; 50% mortality rate observed in infected cats in the US.

A virus that has reshaped ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere has arrived quietly on Australian shores, detected first in seabirds in June and now confirmed across nearly every state by late August. H5N1 — more lethal than any bird flu strain Australia has previously encountered — is moving through coastal wetlands, crossing the boundary between birds and mammals, and asking a familiar human question: how do we live carefully alongside a world we do not fully control? The risk to people remains low but real, and the response required is not panic, but the kind of steady, informed attenti

H5N1 bird flu spreads across Australia: what you need to know

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