New Zealand has confirmed a second case of H5 bird flu after a kāhu (swamp harrier hawk) found in the Wairarapa ‘tested positive’ for the virus.
The detection follows confirmation earlier this week of the country’s first case in a brown skua discovered at Petone Beach. Bureaucrats say there have been no cases detected in poultry and the risk to human health remains very low.
Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard said the latest case was not unexpected and demonstrated that New Zealand’s nationwide bird flu surveillance programme was successfully identifying infections. In response, authorities will increase monitoring of wild birds at selected Wairarapa sites, provide additional support and biosecurity advice to poultry and egg producers in Wellington and the Wairarapa, and establish a technical advisory group of scientists to support the response.
Hoggard said swamp harriers can become infected by hunting or scavenging diseased birds, particularly along the coast during winter. He encouraged poultry farmers to maintain strict on-farm biosecurity, adding that free-range operators may choose to temporarily house their birds as a precaution while officials assess the spread of the virus. He also reiterated that chicken and eggs remain safe to eat and urged the public not to touch sick or dead birds, instead reporting them to authorities.
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka said the Department of Conservation had been preparing for the arrival of H5 bird flu for several years and continues to work alongside Biosecurity New Zealand, iwi and conservation organisations to protect native wildlife. The department’s vaccination programme for endangered bird species is continuing, with 67 birds from six species or populations having received their first dose so far. Approval has also been granted to expand vaccinations to additional priority species as officials respond to evolving risks.
DOC said ‘vaccination’ is only one part of its response, which also includes increased surveillance, strengthened biosecurity measures, support for wildlife facilities, and ongoing monitoring to protect New Zealand’s most vulnerable native bird populations.
So sick to death of this Sh1t. Look at the way MSM keeps pumping it up. Proving what a bunch of lying losers they are. This is why I have permanently turned my TV off in May 2020. Just a load of propaganda and BS. DEFUND THEM from taxpayers money NOW.
Agree
Bird flu has been around for ever in various forms and yet isn’t it amazing that all birds haven’t been wiped out!
But here we go – one commercial operator will spot one or two cases amongst their flock- do “the right thing” and the govt will turn up and euthanise his entire operation. (Odds are the rest of the flock is either immune or has had it and he didn’t notice)
His neighbours flock will have to culled too, to prevent spread of course- which will be ineffective.
Sick of this bs
The False Prophets – somebody is making a lot of money out of vaccinations. Somebody wants Chicken and eggs off the shelf
They’ll be coming for the pets too.
Lockdown the pukekoes and jab the magpies to save grandma! Come on you wekas flatten the curve! Roosters get your boosters and two shots for summer!
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A very good riposte to this predictable B/S; complete insanity, a hallmark of the bureaucracy and a good number of MP’s.
Engineer a crisis, then release government billions to solve the problems. Money that was supposed to pay for roading projects, heathcare, schools, welbeing for the sick and elderly.
Stop people form seeing each other, close down businesses, schools, close down the whole country. Wreck the economy for generations.
This is one citizen who will never comply.
You are not alone. It they thought the protest last time was problematic- there are now hundreds of thousands more of us that will make damn sure we are there next time. Together we are strong, United we stand. 🤜
Can the Daily Telegraph try and find out more about the bureaucrats behind this and name them, the public has a right to know who’s behind the hype.
Yes name and shame like they did to the working man having a beer after a hard day at work.
As NZDSOS has pointed out and I know myself from experience, wild birds are fragile, easily damaged and die quickly from handling or confinement, not only is this a scam, it is demonic. This has got to stop this fear mongering evil controlling money grubbing hysteria. Leave the birds be. Expose the fraudulent testing and criminal waste of $$ that could be spent elsewhere. MSM are disgusting headline grabbing dimwit whores for putting this out there. We cant help the hand wringing virtue signaling gullible members of the public who fall for this, there are far too many of them. Maybe we should organise a national detonate the TV day. Send the media and those that seek to control the ‘narrative over reality’ a message.
Maybe the birds were experimented on w/ Ozempic, which is also an mRNA ‘vaccine’…for Diabetes & weight loss…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rVtscK8DPyHN
The PTB / WEF / WHO / JWO bullshit piles up…and up…and up…just like in Vietnam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqOjSEX5Boc
This from RCR:
“Former WHO scientist David Bell described the broader H5N1 response as “classic hysteria.” Speaking to RCR’s Paul Brennan earlier this month, Bell said the virus had circulated naturally for millions of years and caused only about 500 recorded deaths worldwide over 25 years, with “no sustained human transmission anywhere”.
Maybe we should have a look at the excess injury/deaths after the COVID jab instead? Of course, that would mean really doing your job, wouldn’t it NZ govt?
Looks like the bureaucratic scum are prepping for a cull? $40 organic chickens anyone?
HUMAN’S CAN NOT GET BIRD FLU FROM BIRD’S (Our human H protein prevents this, it’s nature’s way of stopping inter species transmission of disease.)
Vaxxing endangered birds = Extinct birds
Say good bye to the Kiwis.
Don’t worry about the bird flu worry about the Chem trail these scum are polluting our planet with these pilots that are spraying this shit need to be accountable think what kind of planet they are leaving for their grandchildren .Everybody check out a documentary on Dimming that will give you an idea on what’s happening.
100%
These snooty woke as fk DOC university button-prodders who’ve never stepped out of their sheltered tax payer-funded offices into the real world and never fking will– who are OBLIVIOUS to the scale of time, who can’t even comprehend how fleeting and puny and TINY a micro-second of one hundred thousand years of natural selection and evolution is – actually fkn think a hundred goddam MILLION years of nature doing it’s thing is nothing to take any notice of….. Fkn dipsh*ts.
Leave us alone with this nonsense!
What a joke vax the birds . Just all idiots .
What is this coalition doing to stop this nonsense???????
They are doing it again, we didint £$%£$%^^$$ LAST TIME… ps November 2026 Vote smalll or not at alll…….
What a bunch of great comments. Can we defeat this effort by the witless drones to knock out part of our food supply ? More action required than these comments – perhaps we need to lobby our mindless proles (MP’s) for starters and consider what other strategies we could employ.
New Zealand has confirmed! Bureaucrats identify! Bureaucrats say! Hoggard said! Potaka said! DOC said ‘vaccination’!
Meanwhile, we the people call the unconstitutional New Zealand Company church parliament a foreign corporate crime syndicate/terrorist organisation .
You are right and very well put. The foreign corporate crime syndicate/terrorist organisation are bringing something that we have lived with for 30 odd years (this strain of bird flu has been around since the 1990’s) to attention through the equally corrupt media DOC, MPI and health systems for the gain of all of the above and their puppet masters. More fool us if we take up the drama. Keep living people
First they will come for your chickens and you will do nothing, then they will come for your pets and then you will do nothing.
‘Bird flu’ is actually 1080 poisoning. The symptoms are identical. Whoever said that this is demonic was closer to the mark than is believable. Sickening- and deadly.