Animal Die-off -- United States
The tufted puffins started washing ashore on St Paul Island [Alaska] in mid-October [2016] -- first a handful, then dozens, then so many that volunteers patrolling to collect dead birds began walking their 4-wheelers rather than riding. It was easier than getting off every few feet.
The hundreds of dead, emaciated puffins showing up on this isolated, wind-swept scratch of land in the Pribilof Islands in the middle of the North Pacific suddenly has scientists worried -- about the population
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2fUSMOY
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