Researchers ‘cannot rule out’ chook flu spreading between sea lions

Greater than 600 sea lions have been discovered useless or dying on Peruvian seashores this yr within the first mass mortality occasion of untamed mammals from chook flu in South America

By Madeleine Cuff

A mass outbreak of avian flu amongst sea lions in Peru has revived fears the virus could possibly be passing between mammals.

Because the begin of the yr, greater than 600 sea lions (Otaria flavescens and Arctocephalus australis) have been discovered useless or dying on Peruvian seashores.

Six animals had been examined for influenza and all examined optimistic. PCR exams confirmed that the virus was the H5N1 chook flu subtype that has killed tens of thousands and thousands of untamed and …