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A deadly strain of bird flu, known as H5 bird flu, has arrived on the Australian mainland.
The federal agriculture minister, Julie Collins, this weekend confirmed that a brown skua – that had been found sick in Western Australia – had died from the H5N1 virus. The skua is a wild migratory bird.
