Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses of Eurasian origin continue to circulate and evolve in North American wild birds, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Published in the journal Genome Announcements, … Continued
In March, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) reported that staff and volunteers collected the carcasses of approximately 2,000 migrating snow geese that appeared to have succumbed to avian cholera and died while stopping at Mud Lake and … Continued
NOAA Fisheries and a host of other agencies have been at work over the summer of 2013, trying to learn why dolphins are dying along the Mid Atlantic Coast. Bottlenose dolphin strandings in the Mid Atlantic region from New York … Continued