Avian flu outbreak leads to travel warning for Scottish islands

Visits are being discouraged to small islands with large seabird populations

Indigo Stafford

People are being advised not to visit more than 20 small Scottish islands in a bid to limit the spread of a severe outbreak of Avian flu.

The Scottish Seabird population is currently facing the worst outbreak of the disease that the UK has ever seen.

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