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Big Brother's Reggie Bird Urges People to "Really Vote" for Winner

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Chat to the hook by phone after being announced as one of the Brother Royalties vs New Competitors ‘ The Last Three winner, 2003 Reggie Bird—the last OG left in the game—says he feels “very good” about everything. “Second time round, who would have thought, hey!” he laughed. “I’m so excited, I can’t wait for the final.” Although it seems that Reggie Bird is the key to being the first two times winner Australian sister during a live broadcast on Tuesday, July 12, Bird himself didn’t feel so confident. He laughed. “To be honest, I had some tough competition, you know,” he said. “I just didn’t want to get that in my head and then be let down in the end there. And because people have to vote, that’s the biggest thing, to get me over the line.” Bird went on to say that he was “worried that people will be complacent” and that one of his rivals, Johnson Ashak and Taras Hrubyj-Piper, would ...

Wild bird monitoring to help predict zoonotic disease risk

Australia’s largest sample collection of wild birds has been established by experts across the country, including a Deakin University researcher. This is what is shown about zoonotic diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest zoonotic disease – caused by germs that spread from animals to humans. But an outbreak of monkeypox and Japanese encephalitis means keeping up with viral traffic has never been more important. Experts say it is only a matter of time before another new infectious virus outbreak strikes. A new virus that combines human influenza and avian influenza is a prime candidate for the next pandemic. Bird flu is causing problems globally and in Australia. In 2020 alone, nearly half a million Victorian birds were culled following several outbreaks involving three strains of the virus. While avian influenza viruses generally attach themselves to infecting birds, they sometimes make potentially lethal jumps to other animals, including humans. Fortunately, research ...