Researchers fear that the virus threatens some of the penguin varieties that were never able to develop immunity against the pathogen.
He main bird flu virus was first detected on the coast of the Antarctica in sea birdsBritish researchers announced this Tuesday, and pointed out that it is “a risk” for local species such as penguins.
The presence of the virus HPAI was confirmed between subantarctic skuasa family of seabirds, according to a statement published Monday by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)an organization to which British researchers active in this region are attached.
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The planet is living “the worst bird flu epidemic in history”, reported the AFP news agency. The presence of the virus in Antarctica is a “dramatic news”he said on the social network X (formerly Twitter) Michelle Willespecialist in bird flu of the University of Melbourne, Australia.
The British researchers took samples of the subantarctic skuas who had been found dead in the South Georgia Islandsoffshore, east of the southern tip of South Americabut that “it is not strictly located within the Antarctic continent,” they clarified.
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Additionally, researchers believe that the virus was brought by some birds from South Americaa region that in the last two years was affected by the bird flu with tens of millions of poultry condemned to slaughterthey remembered.
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Researchers fear that the virus will reach the southern continent and threaten some of the varieties of penguins who do not live in other places and who, therefore, They were never able to develop immunity against this pathogenthey concluded.
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