Why is bird flu so bad this year and why are scientists so concerned?
More wild birds than ever before have been killed by bird flu this year - with sea birds being especially hard hit.
"These outbreaks began in Europe, then spread to North America, and unlike past outbreaks, have not died out," she says. Dr Nancy Beerens, bird flu expert at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research in the Netherlands, which analyses suspected bird flu samples, says the virus may now be ubiquitous in wild birds.
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