Uruguay has admitted that some 400 sea lions have died and have been buried in two meters deep graves, taking into account very special sanitary conditions to avoid contagion of the H5 virus or avian flu.
An estimated 400 seals and sea lions have turned up dead on the coast of Uruguay in recent weeks, blamed by authorities on bird flu.We have to wait for the immunity of the animals to act, but we do not know when this is going to happen," she told AFP.
Uruguay has an estimated 315,000 seals and sea lions.
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