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Bird-flu virus makes itself at home in Canada’s foxes and skunks

The virulent H5N1 strain now sweeping across the world is adapting to its mammalian hosts in northern North America.
Young Striped Skunk in roadside ditch.

Striped skunks in Canada have died of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza, which the animals might have caught by scavenging dead birds. Credit: Getty

Bird flu is adapting to wild mammals1.

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Nature 616, 10 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00776-w

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  1. Alkie, T. N. et al. Emerg. Microbes Infect. https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2023.2186608 (2023).

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