Bird Flu Hits World’s Biggest Wandering Albatross Colonies
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A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a remote island group halfway between South Africa and Antarctica.
High pathogenicity avian influenza, or HPAI, H5N1 virus has been confirmed on South Africa’s Marion Island after samples were shipped back to the mainland, the country’s environment department said in a statement on Sunday.