Influx of highly pathogenic strain a case of ‘not if, but when’ and could devastate native wildlife, experts say.
Read More at Source.
Urban Birds Are Teeming With Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Study Finds – Mother Jones
Urban ducks and crows might offer us a connection to nature, but scientists have found wild birds that live near humans are more likely to harbor …
Read More at Source.
The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus found in U.S. dairy cattle has some characteristics that … – Nature
… wild birds and spillovers to terrestrial and marine mammals in direct contact with infected birds. The increasing number of susceptible species …
Read More at Source.
The Veterinarians Preventing the Next Pandemic | The New Yorker
has been to kill all the likely infected poultry. (Cases in wild birds aren’t similarly containable.) In a 2014 outbreak, the virus began out West, …
Read More at Source.
Direct and indirect effects of temperature on bird and fish community stability – Nature
Our study reveals distinct differences in how temperature components affect the stability of birds and fishes, and shows that indirect effects play a …
Read More at Source.
A ferret’s sneeze is helping monitor the risk of a bird flu pandemic
Its arrival in Peru and Chile led to the death of more than 500,000 wild birds. “And those are just the ones that have been counted,” says Wille. “I’m …
Read More at Source.
US to expand bird flu testing for beef in slaughterhouses – ThePrint
Nearly 200 herds in 13 U.S. states have contracted bird flu since March after the virus jumped from wild birds to cows, USDA data has shown. Show …
Read More at Source.
City birds found to be carriers of antimicrobial resistant bacteria | University of Oxford
Research led by scientists at the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research at Oxford University has found that wild birds such as ducks …
Read More at Source.
The American West’s megafires are silencing birds – Grist.org
The American West’s megafires are silencing birds. One sound index used to monitor biodiversity fell by as much as 15 percent following particularly …
Read More at Source.
U. of Cincinnati ornithologist is training next generation of bird banders | WVXU
Bird-banders-in-training check the mist nets. The sun is still rising when Ron Canterbury gathers a dozen students around him at the University of …
Read More at Source.