Officials at Lincoln Park Zoo confirmed Wednesday that a harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo each died of highly pathogenic ...
Testing has confirmed that HPAI was the cause of death for Teal, a Chilean flamingo chick, on Jan. 8; and Slater, a harbor ...
After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.
The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.
Their deaths came within a day of each other, the Chicago zoo said in a Jan. 15 news release. Teal, a months-old Chilean ...
Bird flu continues to affect animal species everywhere, including a Chilean flamingo and a harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo in ...
Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo announced the death of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo as a result of the Avian Influenza, a highly pathogenic disease in free-ranging waterfowls.
Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.
The flamingo died January 8 and the seal died January 9, the Lincoln Park Zoo said. The cause of death for both animals has been confirmed as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI ...
The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next ...
Zoo visitors are not considered at risk of catching bird flu. “Because highly pathogenic avian influenza is spread by free-ranging birds, it is no riskier to visit Lincoln Park Zoo than to enjoy ...