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By Ted Hennessey Bird flu, a potentially deadly virus, has been detected in king penguins near Antarctica by UK scientists. The animal disease experts based at Apha have been looking for the H5N1 virus on South Georgia island as some skuas were found unwell there during October. Earlier, this dangerous bug was spotted in elephant and fur seals and then spread to terns and wandering seabirds like albatrosses living in the Antarctic. This nasty virus has now popped up in five king penguins on the Southern Coast of South Georgia and five gentoo penguins from nearby Bird Island. Testing confirmed …