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ArticleMore than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Aus­tralian island amid bird flu out­break

More than 13,000 seal pups have died on an Aus­tralian ter­rit­ory, as test­ing con­firmed the spread of deadly H5N1 bird flu among pen­guins, seals and pet­rels on sub­antarc­tic islands. The mass mor­tal­ity of south­ern ele­phant seal pups on Heard...