by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
The mainstream media has started reporting on the H5N1 bird flu, saying it’s “killing” birds on Antarctica. The highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds.
“It’s scary. Fortunately, it’s affecting just a few [birds],” says Juliana Vianna at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. “I hope it stays that way, but avian flu in Chile and Peru was a disaster. It killed thousands and thousands of seabirds and sea lions.”