https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/australia/bird-flu-seal-pups-dead-heard- and-mcdonald-islands-intl-hnk
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.16.732752v1
Thousands of elephant seals on an island 4,000 kilometers South west of Australia have died of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b.-a This is the same clade as
the dairy virus that seems to have adapted to infecting mammals.-a The preprint article claims that the virus entered North America via
migratory birds and made it down through South America to the Antarctic peninsula, and traveled West, but there is no evidence that it infected Australia.
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