After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.
Officials at Lincoln Park Zoo confirmed Wednesday that a harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo each died of highly pathogenic ...
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 ...
The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next ...
Bird flu continues to affect animal species everywhere, including a Chilean flamingo and a harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo in ...
Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.
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.