With H5N1 2.3.4.4b causing chaos overseas, the hunt for the next pandemic is on our shores

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic.

Along the untamed coast of southern Victoria, where thyme rice-flower and coast daisy hustle for space and mud flats melt into aqua ocean, a team of birdwatchers is…