Dead elephant seal pups on a beach in Patagonia, Argentina Maxi Jonas
An unprecedented mass die-off of elephant seals on the shores of Patagonia, Argentina, suggests that a highly contagious strain of bird flu is now being transmitted between mammals, and poses a growing threat to the world’s biodiversity, say researchers.
Some 96 per cent of elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) at three breeding sites where the H5N1 strain of avian flu was detected in the Valdes Peninsula region in southern Argentina died in…
