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Australia races to shield little penguins from H5N1 bird flu

Australian wildlife workers have launched an unprecedented effort to vaccinate wild populations of little penguins against the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza.

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Australian wildlife workers have begun a large‑scale vaccination campaign targeting wild little penguins to protect them from the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza. The initiative focuses on the penguin colonies along Australia’s eastern coast at Phillip Island, where hundreds of thousands of tourists regularly gather to watch the birds wade ashore in the evenings.

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