Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected ...

"This is exceptionally rapid detection of an outbreak." ...

Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several more are showing signs of the illness. The outbreak has prompted park ...

The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...

Multiple elephant seal pups along the Northern California coast have tested positive for the deadly avian influenza, or bird flu, according to new research from the University of California.

The outbreak marks the first H5N1 detection in marine mammals in California, and the first detection of the virus in northern ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

Parks officials in California have cancelled popular guided elephant seal tours for the remainder of the season and temporarily closed public viewing areas following a recent outbreak of bird flu ...

Researchers from UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz have detected the H5N1 bird flu virus in elephant seal pups at California's Año ...

H5N1 avian flu outbreak marks the first cases in marine mammals in California and first detection in northern elephant seals ...

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...