More than 700 sea lions in protected areas in Peru have died of bird flu.
A handout photo made available by Peru's National Forestry and Wildlife Service (Serfor) showing experts examining a dead sea lion on a beach in Peru, 15 February 2023. The decision of Argentina and Uruguay to declare a health emergency after the discovery of the first cases of avian flu increased the alert level in Latin America this 15 February due to the advance of this disease, which has come to affect humans in recent decades and which has recently also been detected in some ohter species of mammals. Picture: EPA-EFE/Serfor Perú
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