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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Bird flu kills dozens of elephant seal pups at California state park

A highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak has killed approximately 30 elephant seal pups at California's Ano Nuevo state park, marking the first HPAI H5N1 cases in California marine mammals.
fromNature
3 months ago

Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic - Nature

Since emerging in 1996, highly pathogenic H5N1 viruses of the A/goose/Guangdong lineage have spread globally through enzootic transmission in domestic poultry in Asia and Africa, paired with occasional cross-continental movement by wild birds of the Anseriformes (ducks, geese, swans) and Charadriiformes (shorebirds) orders3,4,5,6,7,8,9. In 2005, introduction of poultry-derived H5N1 viruses into wild birds in China led to viral dispersal across Northern Africa and Asia, establishing new lineages of endemic circulation in poultry10,11.
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