New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm this month. Mary van Andel, chief veterinary officer at the Ministry of Primary Industries,

New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago.

Two more cases of bird flu have been found in Norfolk, taking the number of recently confirmed cases in the county to 10. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said following further testing the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus had been confirmed in commercial poultry at a premises near Hingham,