Utah: Cholera Suspected in Bird Deaths
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About 1,500 dead birds that washed up on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake may have been killed by avian cholera, an expert said.
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Nine more dead birds have tested positive for West Nile Virus, according to mosquito control district sources. Four birds came from San Mateo County, and five more tested positive in Santa Clara County.
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When several birds fell ill last year at Auburn University's respected raptor center, experts were shocked and puzzled by the explanation that the culprit was a lethal disease never seen before in birds of prey.
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TEXARKANA, Texas - Poisoned pigeons began nose-diving into pavement and dying on downtown sidewalks, marring the city's annual festival.  Authorities cleaned up more than 25 sick or dead birds that apparently had eaten poisoned corn from the roof of a nearby bank branch.
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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.
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Three people have died after an outbreak of cholera in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
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An unidentified disease is believed to have killed thousands of chickens in Indonesia&#39;s Central Java. An official in the region says the symptoms are not the same as bird flu.
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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal begin investigating the death of thousands of poultry birds.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli   infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a   nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health   officials said on Friday.
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Israeli investigators have found preliminary signs of bird flu in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Thursday.
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By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN  BOISE, Idaho - More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along a single creek in southern Idaho, and officials on Wednesday tested tissue samples to find out why.
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A woman dies of cholera in Baghdad, officials say, the such first fatality there in the nation's recent outbreak.
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The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has told the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District that avian flu (bird flu) has been ruled out as the cause of death of about 375 ducks at Metro's treatment plant since early January.
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BERLIN -- Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 2--The Portland Audubon Society offered a $500 reward today for information leading to the person who shot and killed a rare sandhill crane at the Shillapoo Wildlife Area near the Columbia River on Wednesday.   A U.S.
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A health official disinfects a quail farm where dead birds were found in Thailand&#39;s Suphan Buri Province, 130 km north of Bangkok.
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21 Sep 2004. The Salt Lake Valley Health Department would not confirm reports of the first West Nile virus death in Utah, after a Salt Lake woman&#39;s obituary reported she died from complications of the virus.