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More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak

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Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 13,000 seal pups have died on an Australian territory, as testing confirmed the spread of deadly H5N1 bird flu among penguins, seals and petrels on subantarctic islands. Newsiline summarises this report from The Guardian Australia and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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