CBC: Die-off of hundreds of birds something Manitoba hasn’t experienced ‘at this scale’: biologist

At least 500 bird carcasses, the majority Canadian geese, have been recovered near water streams in southern Manitoba over the last month — a die-off scientists say they haven’t witnessed in the province before and are attributing to avian influenza. Dr. Hannah Wallace, Lead Research Associate in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba with expertise in viral immunology, said it is strange that after years of avian influenza circulating in North America there would be so many bird deaths at once. 

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