Fig. 1: Mass mortality, clinical signs, and post-mortem findings of elephant seals at Punta Delgada (Península Valdés, Argentina) during an outbreak of H5N1 HPAI. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Mass mortality, clinical signs, and post-mortem findings of elephant seals at Punta Delgada (Península Valdés, Argentina) during an outbreak of H5N1 HPAI.

From: Epidemiological data of an influenza A/H5N1 outbreak in elephant seals in Argentina indicates mammal-to-mammal transmission

Fig. 1

A Hundreds of elephant seal pup carcasses accumulated along the high tide line of the beach at Punta Delgada; a sea lion carcass (arrow) and patchily distributed living elephant seals (far background behind the arrow) are also visible. B Pup presenting with open mouth breathing and tremors/twitching. C Pup presenting with labored breathing and foamy nasal discharge. D, E Abundant white foam on the snout and draining from the sectioned trachea of a dead pup. F Markedly heterogeneous and congested lung surface in a dead pup. G Bloody and mucous nasal discharge in a dead subadult male.

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