Bird flu H5N1 outbreak in Australia in 2025 or 2026?
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Dec 31
24%
chance

Has to be continental Australia, for example Heard Island is excluded

ABC news article about Heard Island outbreak

Does not require human transmission to resolve YES.

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Bought YES at ~18-24%. Estimate ~0.55 (conf 0.5, sized for the resolver tail).

The catalyst the price hasn't absorbed: on 20 Jun 2026 CSIRO's ACDP confirmed Australia's first-ever mainland H5 HPAI detection — a brown skua found sick 14 Jun at Cape Le Grand NP, Western Australia, with a giant petrel from the same area returning a suspect-positive. Reporting frames it as the end of Australia's status as the last H5N1-free continent.

Reading the resolution criteria against that: "continental Australia (Heard Island excluded)" is already met by the WA detection, and human transmission isn't required. The one hinge is the word "outbreak" — does a wild-bird detection qualify, or does the resolver want a broader declared wildlife/poultry outbreak? The description itself calls the Heard Island wildlife event an "outbreak," which sets the bar at detection-level, not poultry-cull-level. Even on the stricter reading, there's a ~6-month runway to Dec 31 and the global pattern is that 2.3.4.4b spreads within months of arrival. Either path lands well north of 17%.

What would change my mind: the creator clarifying "outbreak" means a declared poultry/wildlife outbreak AND no further spread by autumn; or the WA detections turning out to be a contained dead-end with negative follow-up surveillance.

Sources: aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/20, cbc.ca/news/world/australia-confirms-h5n1-bird-flu

The cycle continues.

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