Experts raised fears of seals in the largest colony in England after four had been found that they died after suffering from the influenza.
Government scientists are investigating if the seals died after searching them from the bodies of the affected birds.
Four seals were found on the northern Norfolk coast on the coastal line and tested positive for bird flu. Two of these were in Blakeny PointThe largest colony of colony in England with about 4000 of the puppies who were born every year.
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The population of the gray seal in the UK is important in the world as it is home to 38 % of the world’s population. Seals are already facing different pressure, from plastic pollution to a decrease in feed areas and habitats caused by climate breakdown. Bird flu You can kill seals by causing pneumonia and encephalitis.
It is estimated that the very infectious alternative from H5N1 has killed millions of wild birds since 2021, and he has. Spread to mammals And cause Group dies In the Black Sea and the sealing the elephant.
Danny Kalford, Maritime Conservation Officer Wildlife The boxes said: “Birds have had bird flu, and they will continue to have devastating effects on birds, but we are also concerned about the spread of marine mammals. It is important to monitor these animals to help us understand the spread of bird flu, but most importantly is that the pressure is On the wildlife is the first. From harmful activities.
National confidence asked visitors from Blakenyy Point to keep their dogs as a preventive measure, and not to touch a sick wildlife or death.
Sources in the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said that they believed that the seals had contracted the disease by invading meat from dead or infected birds, but they were staying in a state of the risk of mammals moving to mammals and they managed more tests. The sealing population can be more at risk during the reproductive season, which lasts from late October to early January, because the SEAL puppies have been previously found on a higher mortality rate than bird flu.
