Disease tops nobody's list of Antarctic dangers. "The great advantage of this place is that one never gets ill," said Robert Falcon Scott. His contemporary, Douglas Mawson, even suggested that the icy ...
An Antarctic skua, one of the birds hardest hit by avian flu in the region. Peter Prokosch via Flickr A deadly strain of H5N1, commonly known as avian flu, has been found in birds across the Antarctic ...