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  "title": "Bird flu decimated South America’s marine mammals. What can Australia do differently?",
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        "title": "'Bad luck' for Australia's bird flu epicentre, but worse is to come",
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        "title": "Jean hoped bird flu wouldn’t come to Australia. Then it arrived – and she saw a tern ‘trembling and swaying’",
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Australia to vaccinate vulnerable native birds against bird flu",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/australia-to-vaccinate-vulnerable-native-birds-against-bird-flu",
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