Has Australia's Bio-Defense Been Breached? H5N1 Hits Heard Island and the Crisis on Our Plates
📢 30-Second Briefing Current Crisis: The skyrocketing egg prices on the mainland are driven by the H7 strain. (Economic Crisis) New Threat: The deadly high-pathogenicity H5 virus has been confirmed on Australia's Heard Island. (Ecological Crisis) Implication: A crack has appeared in the defense line of Australia, the world's last H5-free continent. Walking past the egg aisle in Melbourne supermarkets these days, one often encounters barren shelves. It’s not simply a matter of inflation. It is a distress signal that something deep within our food system is broken. The H7 bird flu that has ravaged Victoria, and now the H5N1 variant that has infiltrated Australian territory (Heard Island)—these may seem like separate events, but they stem from a single root: the collapsing boundary between humanity and nature. ...