{"id":29247,"date":"2024-02-09T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=29247"},"modified":"2024-03-07T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:01:11","slug":"sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/sound-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"29247\" class=\"elementor elementor-29247\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5e37a39 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5e37a39\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f939481\" data-id=\"f939481\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df84451 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"df84451\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sound Familiar?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f350dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7f350dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Canada geese in Ontario are dying in what virologists are calling an \u201cunprecedented\u201d worldwide surge of avian flu (H5N1). In the past year, the disease has affected 80 countries, and since spreading to North America, probably via migratory species, has killed 72 million farm birds in the United States alone. In January, virologists in Kingston, Ontario, collected 30 Canada goose carcasses from the Lake Ontario waterfront, all of which tested positive for the wildly infectious disease.<\/p><p>While avian flu affects mostly aquatic species such as gulls, terns and geese, it is also being found in mammals such as foxes, skunks, and bears, and in birds of prey such as eagles, which feed on the dead birds. In Antarctica, the breeding ground for 100 million birds, H5N1 was detected in brown skuas last October, and three months later hundreds of elephant seals were found dead.<\/p><p>While Leah Birmingham, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sandypineswildlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre<\/a> in Napanee, near Kingston, says there is little risk of avian flu affecting humans, Rebecca Paulson, a virologist at the University of Georgia, notes that the surge in new cases around the world is a huge concern to wildlife biologists. \u201cMy gut,\u201d she says, \u201cwould tell me [this] might be part of the new normal.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e39bbb0\" data-id=\"e39bbb0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19a10a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"19a10a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-29250\" alt=\"Juvenile Bald eagle\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/avian-bird-flu-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">A juvenile Bald eagle feeds off an avian-flu-infected Canada goose carcass in Kingston, Ontario.<br \/>Photo by Richard Cooper.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound Familiar? Canada geese in Ontario are dying in what virologists are calling an \u201cunprecedented\u201d worldwide surge of avian flu (H5N1). In the past year, the disease has affected 80 countries, and since spreading to North America, probably via migratory species, has killed 72 million farm birds in the United States alone. 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