Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.

In a media release on November 20, the British Antarctic Survey, BAS, acknowledged the first avian influenza case on Bird Island in October 2023, (on the brown scuba population) adding that the ...

The scavenger brown skuas populations on Bird Island, South Georgia Highly Pathogenic ... birds and unexplained mortality, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff took samples which were returned ...

iaai on an Antarctic island called Vega ... scientists couldn’t be sure what bird family was descended from the ancient ...

[AFP] Bird flu is likely to spread further in the Antarctic region ... detected in the region on October 8 in a brown skua on Bird Island, part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia ...

There are just eight among the seals and penguins of King Edward Point on South Georgia and only four at nearby Bird Island. The biggest base, Rothera, on the Antarctic Peninsula houses 19 ...