More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the ...
While H5N1 has been circulating in Antarctica since 2023, this is the first confirmation showing that it killed birds on that continent.
Simon Gorta is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales and his PhD research is supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship. Richard Kingsford is a ...