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Australia to evacuate sub-Antarctic research base over bird flu fears

Australia to evacuate sub-Antarctic research base over bird flu fearsWorldPing

Australia said Friday it would evacuate workers from a research station on a remote island over the "psychosocial" risk posed by a potential outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza.

This is a short WorldPing brief. The full report was published by Phys.org.

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Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Phys.org