The Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources has approved University of Minnesota researchers’ request to study how the current bird flu outbreak is spreading in wild birds and mammals in Minnesota.
“What we know right now, birds – and for first time in Minnesota history – wild mammals, as well as domestic mammals have been affected by this virus,” said the principal investigator of the study, Dr. Arno Wuenschmann, during the LCCMR meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
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