Saving The World’s Fattest Parrot: Can New Zealand Vaccinate Its Rare Species Before Bird Flu Gets To Them?

Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can New Zealand vaccinate its rare species before bird flu gets to them?

via theguardian.com

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In the last continent to remain untouched by the virus, hopes are being pinned on immunisation as migration season approaches It is easy to imagine how it could happen. A petrel, flying east from the Indian Ocean at the end of the Austral winter, makes landfall at New Zealand’s southern Codfish Island/Whenua Hou. Tired from […]

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