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Bird competitions at this year's Royal Adelaide Show won't be going ahead as cases of bird flu in the state continue to rise. The state has now recorded 119 positive cases up from 87 yesterday. South Australia's Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society works with about 150 poultry exhibitors and volunteers. Chief executive Will Rayner says the risk remains low but all precautions will be taken to prevent the potential spread of the deadly virus.

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00:02Animal welfare and biosecurity is something that we take very seriously and we have for
00:06more than 186 years.
00:08And while we think the risk is very low, we took the decision now out of an abundance
00:11of caution and to make sure that our volunteers and those exhibitors had as much time to prepare
00:16as possible.
00:17We have more than 26,000 competitive entries at the show every year, birds is just a small
00:22part of that.
00:23And obviously we felt that anything we could do to make sure we were as low risk as possible
00:26and also to provide an element of leadership for the industry was the way to go.
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