Avian flu has reached the Antarctic, raising concerns for isolated populations of penguins and seals that have never been exposed to the deadly H5N1 virus before.
Scientists are raising concerns about possible “catastrophic breeding failure” of the region’s fragile wildlife populations and “devastating impact on many wildlife species”.
The current outbreak of the highly infectious variant of H5N1 – which started in 2021 – is estimated to have killed millions of wild birds.

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