Australia: bird flu impacts McDonald's opening hours

In Australia, McDonald's restaurants will reduce breakfast service hours, due to the avian flu epidemic affecting the country and affecting the supply of eggs.

"We are carefully managing egg supplies due to the current challenges in the industry," McDonald's Australia said in a message to customers this week.

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“We are working hard with our suppliers to get the situation back to normal as soon as possible,” the company added.

As a result, breakfast orders will stop at 10:30 a.m. instead of noon, previously.

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Australian authorities have indicated that they have identified cases of H7 avian flu in around ten farms in the south-east of the country, in the states of Victoria and New South Wales, and in the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra. .

According to scientists, this H7 strain is linked to viruses detected in wild birds in Australia, different from the H5 strain which is spreading elsewhere in the world.

A first global case of human death from H5N2 avian influenza was confirmed in Mexico last month by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Considered less pathogenic than H5N1, the H5N2 virus has been reported in livestock in different countries around the world in recent years. No transmission to humans has until now been documented.