More than 600 sea lions have died from bird flu in Mar del Plata and Caiken this year

“The first fur seal deaths were recorded in the Tierra del Fuego and Punta Bermeja animal reserves (Rio Negro) on the first day,” researchers from the Marine Mammal Institute documented in an annual report .August.”

As of August 2023, “a significant increase in the number of deaths of monohaired sea lions belonging to the port colonies of Quicon and Mar del Plata has begun to be observed.”

Within a few days, a working group consisting of more than 70 people from nearly 40 agencies was established along the coast of Buenos Aires to provide personnel and resources for the final storage of corpses, community monitoring, and internal distribution management. Sea lions in the harbor.

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Hygiene coordination for this task is the responsibility of the National Agricultural Food Hygiene and Quality Service (Senasa) and the consortium of Mar del Plata and Caicon ports, coastal municipalities, park rangers, NGOs, and the National University of Mar del Plata. del Plata (Unmdp) and Conicet researchers.

Infected specimens exhibit neurological and respiratory disorders: disorientation, incoordination, walking in circles, head-to-the-sky posture, inability to move, convulsions, difficulty breathing, profuse nasal discharge, and salivation.

Source: Télam