OH OH!!! It's that Zombee Chickadee virus!!
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By - Associated Press - Friday, July 10, 2015
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota has confirmed its second case of avian influenza in a wild bird, though it’s unclear if the chickadee found a month ago was infected with the strain that has cost farmers millions of chickens and turkeys, the Department of Natural Resources said Friday.
The chickadee, found in Ramsey County, was taken to a wildlife rehabilitation center on June 10, and it later tested positive for an H5 bird flu virus. But the lab was unable to determine if it was the same highly pathogenic H5N2 strain that has devastated commercial poultry farms in Minnesota, Iowa and other Midwest states, according to DNR wildlife research manager Lou Cornicelli.