Roughly 10,000 birds, mostly snow geese, have died of avian cholera

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Roughly 10,000 birds, mostly snow geese, have died of avian cholera on and near the water-starved Lower Klamath and Tule Lake national wildlife refuges. Limited water deliveries to the refuges, combined with large bird migrations, are blamed for the cholera outbreak, said Ron Cole, the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges Complex manager

We have not seen an outbreak of this magnitude for some time,” he said


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