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Australian wildlife workers have launched an unprecedented effort to vaccinate wild populations of little penguins against the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza. Hundreds of thousands of tourists each year flock to viewing areas and boardwalks to watch the diminutive seabirds waddle ashore and along the beach in the evenings on Australia's eastern coast at Phillip Island.

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