Conjunctivitis -- Canada
A few cases of conjunctivitis, also known as the bacteria that causes pink eye, has been found in Saskatoon birds.
The infection is fairly common among birds but doesn't tend to spread quickly until the winter months. "What happens is in the winter time, birds have the tendency to come to feeders more often for the easy pickings of food, so the spread of the disease is more common," said Jan Shadick, executive director of Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation.
"It takes one bird with the
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6875748&promed&0
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