Asia

Fears of mass seal deaths triggersAustralian withdrawal from remote island

The Australian Antarctic Division will launch a mission to extract personnel from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean due to the psychological risk posed by a potential outbreak of bird flu at the remote wildlife sanctuary.

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Australia — Jano Gibson