Bird flu interspecies infection

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I hope this govt can have the sense to learn from the covid experience here if it does turn up here.

I think the key is probably to take action sooner to close borders and implement MIQ style quarantine measures to negate the need of a lockdown, but being an avian flu, there is a global risk with migratory birds spreading it, so we have far more to worry about, including the threat to our native bird species.

Agree. The variety of infection vectors is far greater than was the case for Covid19. Birds, including poultry, cattle, cats, sea mammals, unpasteurised dairy products, and who knows what other mutations are in play already. And just as myrtle rust arrived on the wind so too migratory are uncontrollable by way of lockdowns.