00:00If the H5N1 strain of bird flu was to enter Australia via migratory birds and into the Australian bird and wildlife population,
00:10the risk of it spilling over into dairy herds in the same way that it did in the US is low.
00:16Are we prepared in case it happens?
00:19We're lucky in that compared to the US we have forewarning.
00:23This was a new unprecedented event in the US, so by the time they understood that H5N1 was in their dairy herds,
00:33it had already spread to a number of herds, so they were chasing their tail from the start.
00:38Whereas we know what signs to look for if we do get H5N1 in our wildlife and bird population,
00:45we're in a better position because we can have hypervigilance with the clinical signs in our dairy herds and get on top of it early.
00:52So I think we are prepared, although there's more work that was identified by this risk assessment,
00:57research gaps, et cetera, that we need to address to be more prepared.
01:01So we've started the process and there's more work to do, but we're definitely in better stead than we were a year ago.
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