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

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 ...

image: A subadult male elephant seal can be seen near sea lions in October 2024. Subadult elephant seals and sea lions frequently intermingle at rookeries along Península Valdés in Argentina.

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 ...

Peninsula Valdés, in the Argentine province of Chubut, is home to the largest continental colony of elephant seals in the world. By the end of 2023, it was approaching 60,000 individuals, when an ...

Dead elephant seal pups seen on the beach in Punta Delgada, Argentina, in October 2023. Credit: Ralph Vanstreels / UC Davis Swabbed samples taken from infected seals showed how the H5N1 virus has ...

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds. "It ...

In 2023, H5N1 spread "efficiently" through breeding colonies of elephant seals along Argentina's Península Valdés, Uhart's team found. The same deadly phenomenon was happening to seal ...

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; ...