Due to avian flu, what used to be a vacation spot in northern Chile full of tourists sighting the marine fauna has become the ground where sanitary brigades look for dead birds likely killed by the deadly virus following the closure of the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve, in the Coquimbo region.
Santiago/Lima/Quito, Apr 19 (EFE).- The Pacific beaches of South America have been transformed in recent weeks into cemeteries for thousands of sea lions, penguins, pelicans, and other wildlife fallen victim to avian flu. In Chile, where the first infected wild bird was detected in December, the illness had claimed the lives of 1,535 sea lions …