Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several ...

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

Multiple elephant seal pups along the Northern California coast have tested positive for the deadly avian influenza, or bird ...

Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected with H5N1 bird flu.

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 ...

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

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

Seven weaned elephant seal pups in California's Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary ...

Elephant seal pups at California’s Año Nuevo State Park have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, researchers from UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz announced Wednesday. The outbreak marks the ...

It is the first confirmed outbreak in any elephant seal population in California. As a result of the outbreak, the elephant seal viewing area at Ano Nuevo State Park has been closed and tours have ...