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The worst affected are marine mammals. More than 20,000 sea lions and a handful of dolphins have died in Chile and Peru due to the infection. There have been reports of deaths of seals on the east and west coasts of the US.
Officials had been greatly puzzled by a "mystery disease" that has been making dairy cattle in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico very sluggish and has been causing them to produce much less milk. So they
Since H5N1 arrived in Antarctica, there have been deaths of elephant seals, ifur seals, kelp gulls, penguins, according to SCAR.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed that Washington, Kentucky and Montana have reported bird flu cases in mammals this year.
Fears that humans may someday catch avian flu have heightened as the virus been contracted by mammals, the USDA announced.