The first case of the highly contagious H5 bird flu strain has been detected in Australia, ending the continent’s previous status as the only one free of the virus.
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In 2019, most people had never heard of COVID.
Today everyone knows the name.
Awareness starts somewhere.
Imagine everyone knowing H5 one year from now.
Deadly $H5 Bird Flu is now confirmed
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🇦🇺🇦🇶 13,000 Baby Seals Dead: A Warning Sign, or Mother Nature Just Doing Her Thing?
A deadly H5 strain of bird flu has wiped out an estimated 76% of southern elephant seal pups on Australia’s Heard and McDonald Islands, with roughly 13K dead pups.
Drone surveys revealed heartbreaking scenes of carcasses littering the volcanic shores. Some beaches saw 97% mortality.
Hundreds of king penguins also died, with seabirds hit hard.
Scientists say this is the first detection of H5 bird flu in an Australian external territory. The virus likely arrived from nearby Crozet Islands around August 2025 and is spreading eastward across the sub-Antarctic.
Always scary when this happens in a sanctuary meant to protect animals.
Source: CNN / Writer: Jamie
Australia reported its first mainland case of H5 bird flu, marking the spread of the deadly virus to every continent on the planet https://t.co/xsgxOHUx3I
This $H5 bird flu is very serious
Unlike older outbreaks, the current strain has infected a surprisingly wide range of mammals, including dairy cows, cats, seals, sea lions, foxes, bears, and others, and has a very high fatality rate.
Influenza viruses mutate rapidly.
If $H5 were to acquire mutations allowing efficient human-to-human transmission while retaining significant severity, it could potentially trigger a pandemic. That is why governments and health organizations track every human case very closely.
We’ll be hearing more and more about this virus.
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