Infection May Have Killed Idaho Ducks

December 15, 2006
Infection May Have Killed Idaho Ducks (AP)

In this December 2006 photo provided by the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game biologists look at a cluster of dead ducks discovered in Land Springs Creek, near Oakley, Idaho. State wildlife agencies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, were testing the tissue samples from more than 1,000 mallard ducks that are dying in a bizarre cluster along a southeastern Idaho creek bed, hoping to rule out an avian flu outbreak. (AP Photo/Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game)

(AP) -- A bacterial or fungal infection might have caused as many as 2,500 mallard ducks to die in a bizarre cluster along an Idaho creek bed, a state game official said late Thursday.



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