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Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean

Scientists fear the deadly H5 strain of bird flu has reached one of Australia's sub-Antarctic islands after signs of the disease were seen in elephant seals on Heard Island. Warning: This story ...
Science Daily

Bird flu’s surprising heat tolerance has scientists worried

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...
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Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest southern elephant seal population—has been transformed. Drone images of the ...
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This trait of avian flu viruses is especially unnerving

A study published in the journal Science finds that bird flu viruses can resist fever-like temperatures in mice -- allowing ...
Forbes

Seventy U.S. Bird Flu Cases Underscore How Much We Still Don’t Know

ITHACA, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: HDC receiving staff prep arriving milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. The ...