With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies
  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Since it arrived in South America, more than 500,000 seabirds have died of it, with penguins, pelicans and boobies among those most heavily affected.

    damn… fur seals also are susceptible…

    • bedrooms@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      And so there’s a risk for humans, too, I guess. Not sure we can survive the next pandemic with at least 40% of population being conservative idiots everywhere in the world.