Wednesday, 10 October 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Avian pox - New Zealand: song bird

Other Animal Disease -- New Zealand
A potentially severe bird pox outbreak among Otago's waxeyes could cause deaths and spread to other avian species.
In his Nature File column in last [Mon 8 Oct 2018] Otago Daily Times, Anthony Harris, of Otago Museum, asked readers if they had noticed growths on waxeyes.
Afterwards he received 9 accounts from the public of what was "unmistakably" bird pox, or Avipoxvirus, he said. The correspondence was from Lawrence, Mosgiel, parts of Dunedin and Waitati, and seemed to show a "severe

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6081085&promed&0

No comments:

Post a Comment