00:00If farmers can prepare, what we're asking them to do is activate biosecurity plans that they
00:04have already and just make sure that they're up to date on that. The key point is to try and
00:08minimise contact with wildlife, so make sure that you close the door on the poultry house,
00:14things like that, but also maintaining the basics of biosecurity, so clean boots,
00:19wearing clean clothes as you go into your shed and making sure that the water supply
00:23is clean water and of drinking quality. We've got an incident management team
00:27and their job is particularly to coordinate the surveillance, so to take those reports
00:31and make sure that we are sampling across the state, not that we're not sampling the same body
00:37of birds multiple times because we get a large number of calls there. We're also establishing
00:41plans to confirm what we would do should it happen in the country, or sorry, in the state, and we
00:48can
00:48then make sure that we've got plans to implement, that we can have swift action and do the best we
00:53can to the wildlife and the commercial poultry industry. There would be potentially movement
00:56restrictions on the areas that we consider infected. Now that may be national parks or that may be a
01:01backyard property depending on what we find. We undertake tracing which is where we map the
01:06movements to make sure that people haven't moved what we call the risk commodities and so that may
01:11mean that you know if you've taken a bird to the vet clinic we'll follow up with that vet clinic
01:15to make
01:15sure that they've implemented disinfection actions. If we need to we'll also take some disposal options
01:21where we can take the birds that unfortunately are deceased and dispose of them in a biosecure
01:25manner so we're not leaving the carcass there for other birds or other wildlife to be infected
01:31but also we can make sure that you know we're minimising the public health risk. So we're getting
01:35about 100 calls a day and about five or six of them have to be followed up so we are
01:40getting a lot
01:40of multiple reports from the same dead birds. The one sort of saving grace we have is our world-class
01:45biosecurity system where we probably will detect you know the first one or two cases so we can start to
01:50implement actions to minimise the risk to the wildlife and the poultry sector. So this strain
01:55circulating worldwide has infected a large number of mammals particularly dairy cattle in the US
02:02however the strain that has been detected in both WA and South Australia isn't mammalian adapted so
02:08there is much lower risk at this stage for the mammalian industries particularly wildlife and poultry
02:13is still our focus. Please do not have any interactions with sick or dead wildlife and I know that's what
02:18you
02:19want to do but it's the best thing that we can do is to avoid interaction. Record what you see
02:23so take
02:24you know the location and the number of birds and any clinical signs if you happen to note that
02:28and report it to the hotline on 1800 675 888 so that we can take appropriate action.
