00:02A day of bird spotting at Adelaide Zoo.
00:05But it's the ones in the wild that have authorities concerned.
00:08Confirmation today of two more suspected bird flu cases in South Australia.
00:13One in Robe and another near Semaphore Beach.
00:15Again, unfortunately we are finding that these two cases are in our local species.
00:21The dead bird in Robe was found at Long Beach,
00:24about four kilometres from where Australia's first native H5 case was detected two weeks ago.
00:29The latest sample sent to the CSIRO for further testing,
00:32to determine if the disease was locally transmitted.
00:35The CSIRO lab will certainly do everything they can to check the sequencing.
00:39We have no evidence of any transmission in Australia.
00:42There are now 18 confirmed cases of bird flu across the country,
00:47with Queensland recording its first in a migratory seabird today.
00:50But authorities are seeking to reassure the public.
00:53We have no mass mortalities being recorded.
00:56We have no bird flu in our poultry or agricultural systems.
01:00And the risk to human health remains low.
01:02Others though fearing the worst, now that the H5 strain has arrived.
01:07It's spread through the entire South American continent within six months.
01:10So this is going to be a wildlife disaster at some point.
01:14The two suspected cases were Greater Crested Terns,
01:17the same species that was picked up in Robe two weeks ago.
01:20They were reported by members of the public to the Animal Disease Hotline,
01:24which has now fielded more than 8,000 bird flu calls across the country.
01:28And public awareness is only expected to increase as the disease spreads further.
01:32This is something that could be on the scale of the black summer bushfires down in South Australia.
01:37I think we can see what's going on with the algal bloom
01:40in terms of the way that the public respond to seeing that scale of devastation.
01:45The CSI road testing results will be finalised early next week.
