World Organisation for Animal Health is in the news as bird flu hits Australia and Brazil, highlighting global animal disease risks it helps coordinate.
Hokkaido culls 459,000 hens amid avian flu outbreak; Taiwan reports first African swine fever case, culling 195 pigs and imposing a island-wide ban. Both regions ramp up biosecurity measures as authorities respond to outbreaks threatening livestock health and trade.
Australia reports its first detection of bird flu on a remote island, amid a surge of outbreaks across Europe and North America. Experts warn of the high mortality rate in humans and the potential for the virus to become a pandemic, though human-to-human transmission remains rare.