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[Animals]
Date Posted:
12/14/2006
12:36:26 pm EST
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Thousands of Ducks Mysteriously Dying In Idaho
Author: Laura Zuckerman, Reuters Source: ENN
Title: THOUSANDS OF DUCKS MYSTERIOUSLY DYING IN IDAHO
Officials scrambled Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.
Although wildlife experts are downplaying any links to bird flu, they have sent samples to government labs to test for the deadly H5N1 flu strain, among other pathogens. Officials with the federal Bureau of Homeland Security have been also called in to help with the probe.
Wildlife officials are calling the massive die-off alarming, with the number of dead mallards rising from 1,000 Tuesday to more than 2,000 by Wednesday afternoon.
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| Those Poor Ducks! | Dec 14th. at 9:35:41 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I hope they find a cause and cure before still another species goes down the drain.
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| Of Those Ducks Still Living | Dec 14th. at 4:19:41 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
Convert or die!
"Officials have posted signs warning hunters and others not to touch or eat the birds until a cause of death has been identified.
Preliminary findings by state veterinarians suggest the mallards succumbed to a bacterial infection, officials said. They said it was unclear why a similar outbreak had never before occurred in Idaho. "
If it was an overdose of Bug Spray, eating the Live Birds would lead to some Liver Damage.
I take it this has happened at the start of Hunting Season?
Sneak up on an unwary flock, and read to them from The Little Red Book, or whoever your Pagan God happens to be.
Arawn
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| The Rapture Is Here! | Dec 14th. at 2:45:27 pm EST
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L Henderson (Upper Township, New Jersey) - Email Me
Utah - "Millions of Christians suffered bodily injury due to dropping jaws after realizing that the rapture prophesized by some was really meant for the duck population, not devout believers in the Almighty."
Sorry...couldnt resist.
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| Oh No! | Dec 14th. at 12:45:02 pm EST
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BlueManticore (Tinley Park, Illinois) - Email Me
I pray that this cause is just an unfortunate bacterial infection, something hopefully we can treat and help those still alive, and not something worse like cruel poisoning by some horrid person. Those poor ducks. :- (
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