{
  "id": 6699674,
  "title": "Establishment of an avian influenza surveillance program in Australia's largest river basin",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/establishment-of-an-avian-influenza-surveillance-program-in",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.09.750291v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "To-date Australia has had mostly coastal occurrences in a small but growing number of species of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b. The potential impacts of expected spread are the focus of significant preparation activities. Here we report on early surveillance undertaken in 2025-26 in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's largest river system, which contains…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}