A highly contagious strain of avian flu has been detected in northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park, the first time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have confirmed seven elephant seal pups have tested positive for avian flu at California’s Año Nuevo State Park.

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

Seven baby elephant seals have tested positive for H5N1, the first case of bird flu in California marine mammals. On Tuesday ...