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Bird flu could wipe out Australian black swans, gene study reveals

The graceful black swan is a familiar sight in waterways across Australia, but it could disappear if avian flu ever takes hold here.

That's the grim conclusion of an international study that has sequenced the iconic bird's genome — and that of its white cousin — for the first time.

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