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Dead birds washing up at Great Salt Lake
| Quote From Source: | Thousands of dead birds are washing up on the Great Salt Lake shore. "We've received a lot of calls — everybody's worried about avian influenza," said Leslie McFarlane, wildlife-disease coordinator at the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
But the dead birds are free of bird flu.
Avian cholera killed more than 15,000 birds on the lake last fall, most of them eared grebes, a duck-like bird. The common bacteria can quickly spread through a bird population, McFarlane said.
"They died clear out in the middle of the lake and there was no way to access them to pick them up," McFarlane said. "Now they are just washing in and they don't pose any threat or anything."
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posted on 4/5/2008 at 08:28
