Innovations
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20/12/1997
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Business Week (New York)
Evidence is mounting that deadly bacteria and viruses carried by tourists and scientists are killing off Antarctica's wildlife. At a late-August meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, some 50 Antarctic scientists called for an international agreement on measures to keep the continent free of the dangerous microbes. In the past few years, scientists have found a virus common to chickens in penguins; salmonella and campylobacter bacteria in the feces of seals.