The number of birds in commercial flocks — largely chickens and turkeys — killed by the virus is far higher, which has led, in part, to an egg shortage and price increase across the country.
The highly pathogenic avian influenza — or bird flu — sweeping across the globe has killed more than 12,000 wild birds in Colorado and the virus is jumping into mammal populations as well, state wildlife officials say.“This is unprecedented,” Kristy Pabilonia, director of clinical diagnostics for Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biological Sciences, said.
The number of birds in commercial flocks — largely chickens and turkeys — killed by the virus is far higher, which has led, in part, to anState officials tracked large-scale “die-offs” of more than a thousand geese twice in northeast Colorado, Duncan said. Once at the Jumbo Reservoir and then at the Prewitt Reservoir. Additional, smaller die-offs were tracked at most of the reservoirs near Lamar, he added.by the U.S.
Domestic flocks have been hard hit but at least humans have the ability to quarantine those flocks and control the spread of the disease, Pabilonia said. In the wild, officials have little or no control.
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