Skuas mortalities linked to positives HPAIV A/H5 beyond Polar Antarctic Circle
Fabiola León Miranda, Claudia Ulloa‐Contreras, Eduardo J. Pizarro, Pablo N. Castillo-Torres, Karla B. Díaz-Morales, Ana Cláudia Franco, Francine Cezar Bandeira Timm, Miguel Correa, Lucas Krüger, Élie Poulin, Catalina Pardo‐Roa, Juliana A. Vianna
The paper reports HPAIV A/H5 infections in skuas along the West Antarctic Peninsula and beyond the Antarctic Polar Circle, linking them to mortalities and marking the southernmost record of such events.
bioRxiv · Mar 2, 2025 · PreprintEcology