warning 2 events J09-J18 • WPR

Influenza due to identified zoonotic or pandemic influenza virus in Australia

Influenza due to identified zoonotic or pandemic influenza virus has 2 WHO-tracked outbreak events in Australia between 2024 and 2025.

Influenza due to identified zoonotic or pandemic influenza virus · Australia · 2 WHO events across 2 calendar years (2024–2025).

Event log

Year	DON ID	ICD-10	ICD-11
2025	DON2938	`J090`	`1E31`
2024	DON2872	`J090`	`1E31`

Position within the disease

Australia is rank #46 of 182 for this disease.
The country sits in the WHO WPR region.
Last reported event: 2025 (1 year ago).

Regional peers (WPR)

22 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 2.

Country	Events
China	10
Cambodia	7
Viet Nam	5
Lao People's Democratic Republic	5
Japan	3
Nauru	2
Solomon Islands	2
Tonga	2

How this disease ranks among Australia’s threats

Influenza due to identified zoonotic or pandemic influenza virus is rank #2 of 10 diseases reported by Australia to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Australia Hub.

Australia health system snapshot

Indicator	2023
Population	26,000,000
Life expectancy	83.00 yr
Healthy life expectancy	72.80 yr
Hospital beds /1k	3.80
Physicians /1k	4.00
Healthcare spending % GDP	10.70%
DTP3 vaccination	95.00%
TB incidence /100k	5.00
HIV prevalence	0.10%