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Will Abbott

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Skuas as sentinels of high pathogenicity avian influenza H5N1 on the Antarctic Peninsula in the 2024/2025 austral summer

Michelle Wille, Will Abbott, Darrel Day, Yi‐Mo Deng, Xiaomin Dong, Ted Gibson, Ryan Hope-Inglis, Michelle McCulley, Ida Olsson, Arvind Varsani, Teri Visentin, Matthew Walters, Meagan Dewar

The study sampled skuas on the Antarctic Peninsula and found HPAI H5N1 in all but one carcass, indicating the virus is established in Antarctica despite low prevalence.

Microbial Genomics · Aug 14, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology