Tag: WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

• Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 06:21 UTC

  Live avian influenza virus discovered in Antarctica Adélie penguins

  

  Researchers have found a new type of avian influenza virus in a group of Adélie penguins (pygoscelies adeliae) from Antarctica. Aeron Hurt, PhD, a senior research scientist at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne, Australia, said that this is the first time that a distinct, live flu virus has been found in these birds.