Tweet Facebook Mail Bird flu has been detected in chickens at a residential property in the ACT , the second site where the virus has been found in the territory. Environment, Parks and Land Management Minister Rebecca Vassarotti said the home is within the quarantine area set up after the virus was first detected at a commercial farm on June 27. "We received confirmation yesterday of a second detection for avian influenza (H7N8).
This second detection is in backyard chickens at a residential property within the quarantine area," Vassarotti said. READ MORE: What a UK Labour victory will mean for Aussie travellers File photo: bird flu has been detected in chickens at a residential property in the ACT. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) "I would like to acknowledge and thank the residents of this property who have acted swiftly to take action to prevent the potential spread of this virus amongst the broader bird population.
"While disappointing to have a second case, it is not unexpected. Like jurisdictions across the country, this is unfortunately the reality of such a highly transmittable virus." The original case in the ACT was linked to the outbreak of the virus in New South Wales, where two farms in Sydney's Hawkesbury region were found to have been infected last month.
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