Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:06:51 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Huy Subject: Re: West Nile Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Georgia McDonald wrote: "I don't know about the National Zoo, but there is a report by (from Mona & Bill Rutger of "Back To The Wild" on ohio-birds) of a crisis situation with respect to raptor mortality in Castalia, Ohio. ...West Nile is the prime suspect and has been detected in 2 GH Owls & a Red-Tail from one center. I would guess they are too busy dealing with the birds to have done immunological testing on each animal. Samples have been collected for analysis." I just read of this situation on another list. Someone was requesting assistance in determining what the cause of the fatalities might be as WNV tests came up negative! They were describing symptoms with hopes that someone might recognize them. This is apparently happening across several states. Steve Huy Middletown, MD gabboon@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================