Birds Fall Out Of Sky As Avian Flu Begins In Kansas City Metro

Cold & flu season starts just a bit more ominously this year . . . With scary reports of pervasive wildlife sickness spotted locally.

Here's the word . . .

"Operation Wildlife, a Linwood-based wildlife rehab, announced on Friday, Dec. 6, that avian influenza has been confirmed to be in the Kansas City metro area. With an increase in the number of geese due to migration, rescuers have seen an uptick in calls about “geese falling out of the sky.”

"Organization leaders noted that the majority of these calls have been related to snow geese - about 40 in the past 3 days. On Friday morning, calls from Atchison, Overland Park, Olathe, Lawrence, Tonganoxie, Kansas City, Kansas, Shawnee and Clinton Lake all rolled in with the same reports."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

KCTV5: ‘Geese falling out of the sky’: Avian flu begins to infect birds in the KC metro

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