Last week, a day that ecologists and virologists in California have feared for years finally arrived.  Officials confirmed seven weaned northern elephant seal pups tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) amid a national surge of the deadly virus. When it tore through multiple colonies of the closely related southern elephant seal in South … Continue reading First Confirmed Cases of Bird Flu in California Elephant Seals Stoke Fear As Virus Surges Worldwide