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From Antarctica’s plagued peninsula to previously untouched archipelagos, the infamous highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu has now moved across thousands of kilometres of ocean and settled in new locations and colonies.
Virus Ecologist Dr Michelle Wille said the impacts on the animals before death are shocking.
“It’s really targeting the brains of these animals,” she said.
“Animals are having neurological [symptoms], and that’s not just the marine mammals like the elephant seals, that’s the birds too,” she explained.
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