The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it’s quieter. Roughly a year after a massive outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses are becoming increasingly flexible and are adapting to mammals in new ways that could have global consequences for humans, wildlife and livestock, ...

The sequence analysis also revealed that there had been more than two spillover events from birds to seals during the second wave of the H5N1 infections. Of the 13 seal-derived viral sequences, 11 ...

Geographic locations of stranded, dead, or sick seals infected by highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus during the 2022 outbreak in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada.

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals in Argentina, only about a third of the seals normally expected here returned. UC Davis scientists and partners estimate. A ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, ... Elephant seals sneeze all day, dispersing large droplets of mucus each time they do. Image.

The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it’s quieter. Roughly a year after a massive outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic ...

A graveyard of elephant seal pups at Punta Delgada in Chubut province, Argentina, last October. The bird flu virus, H5N1, is also responsible for the ongoing outbreak among dairy cows in the U.S ...

Epidemiological data of an influenza A/H5N1 outbreak in elephant seals in Argentina indicates mammal-to-mammal transmission. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53766-5; ...