Authorities in the Western Cape province of the Republic of South Africa have reported a recurrence of HPAI presumably H5N1 in the Boulders Colony near Capetown.  To date, only ten penguins have died in a colony of approximately 3,000.  As with many sea birds, affected penguins show incoordination, depression, and die of dehydration and starvation.  In 2021, the population of endangered Cape cormorants was affected with the loss of 24,000 birds.  Concurrently, Cape gannets are affected as are the gannets in the Sept Ille colony off the coast of Brittany in France.

The only approach to control among wild birds is to remove sick individuals that disseminate viruses and to dispose of caracases.

An obvious deficiency in the approach to the current outbreak is that the management of the Table Mountain National Park has not quarantined the facility and is still allowing visits by the public providing that they remain on wooden walkways and do not touch birds.  This is neglectful since visitors may easily transmit virus from the colony to backyard and commercial flocks in the Western Cape and elsewhere.