Over the past 18 months, the world has seen the largest-ever avian influenza outbreak. Now the disease has spread to South America and has switched from mostly domestic birds to wild ones. But there’s a new concern for scientists, the spread of the deadly virus from birds to mammals – in this case, sea lions in Peru - and if that could put humans at risk. 

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