Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found dead or sick along Lake Michigan in Chicago and its northern suburbs, prompting concerns about a possible bird flu outbreak. Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a volunteer group, has been receiving reports of large numbers of affected mergansers since Friday. This is the first time a large number of mergansers has been suspected of bird flu infections, which has been spreading among waterfowl and other birds in Illinois and the US recently.
Officials suspect that highly contagious bird flu is the cause of the illnesses found in the mergansers, a species of diving duck that winters in the Great Lakes regionHundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago and into the northern suburbs.is the cause of the illnesses found in the mergansers, a species of diving duck that winters in the Great Lakes region.
The majority of mergansers picked up by Prince’s organization were dead, she said, and the sick ones were “not surviving well,” but volunteers have picked them up to avoid other animals approaching them and getting infected. Symptoms of bird flu include weakness, inability to stand up and move, tremors, green diarrhea and general respiratory and neurological problems.
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