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Published Sept. 9, 2022 7:25 a.m. PDT

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After trying a number of hazing strategies, officials will begin trapping and removing about 10 bears from the Jasper townsite in Jasper National Park. 

For several weeks now, at least 10 black bears have been – as Jasper National Parks officials put it – “making use” of Jasper and the abundant fruit in the town’s greenspaces and yards. The number includes two mothers with cubs. 

The animals have proven “reluctant” to leave and come back “almost immediately” after being moved out of the townsite, the park said in a statement on Thursday. 

“The continuous presence of bears in the townsite, often in residential yards just metres from people, is an unacceptable safety risk for visitors and residents.”

Over the next few days, Parks Canada staff will be setting up live traps and traps borrowed from Banff National Park that are meant to trap mothers and cubs together. 

“Bears will be humanely caught using live traps and will be taken to remote areas of the park,” the park said, stressing that the strategy isn’t guaranteed to work. 

“Trapping and moving bears is not always successful. In some instances, bears will return for these easy, reliable food sources. If this occurs, Parks Canada staff may be forced to destroy ‘problem bears’ that continue to inhabit the townsite. 

“Parks Canada needs the help of residents and visitors to try and avoid this situation.”

A poor berry season is enticing the bears to find easy food sources in town, according to a park resource conservation officer. 

•  Jasper officials stress bear safety after cubs found napping on roofs, munching on fruit

Since late August, Parks Canada has been asking residents to reduce the amount of garbage that is accessible to animals, remove fruit-bearing plants from their yards, or remove the fruit from the plants. 

Jasper National Park renewed that call on Thursday, and asked residents to keep their distance from any bear traps they may come across in their neighbourhood. Locations that have a trap will be marked. 

Bear sightings should be reported to 780-852-6155.

Non-residents are currently discouraged from visiting Jasper National Park because a 5,500-hectare wildfire nearby destroyed some of the town’s power lines. Jasper has been relying on generator power since the weekend. On Thursday, some residents had been without power for more than 80 hours. 

•  ‘Finicky’ transition to generators could mean continuous outages in Jasper: ATCO

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A bear naps comfortably in a tree in Jasper after devouring fruit near a home in the townsite (Supplied).

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https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/2022/09/09/bottlenose-dolphin-florida-died-bird-flu

When a bottlenose dolphin was found dead in Florida’s Dixie County earlier this year, a marine animal rescue team from the University of Florida (UF) did not immediately suspect anything out of the ordinary when they performed a routine necropsy.

Tests for common causes of death turned up negative in this young male dolphin found at Horseshoe Beach.

“However, this dolphin had inflammation of the brain and also the tissues surrounding the brain, known as the meninges,” said Robert Ossiboff, D.V.M., Ph.D., an associate professor of veterinary anatomical pathology at UF, in a press release on September 7, 2022.

“This finding was unusual.”

Andrew Allison, Ph.D., an assistant professor of veterinary virology at UF, added, “Although avian flu infection had never been documented in a dolphin, the high incidence of the virus in wild birds in the spring — specifically aquatic bird species such as ducks, gulls, terns, and herons — suggested that encounters between dolphins and dying or dead birds near the shoreline was not out of the realm of possibility.”

Wild birds that succumb to the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) often have neurologic signs with the virus found in their brains since the dolphin had inflammation of the brain and meninges that a virus could have caused.

Based on these initial suspicions, the UF researchers sent dolphin brain and lung samples to the state’s Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Kissimmee, Florida.

There, suspicions were confirmed, as the samples tested positive for HAPIV.

The case was the first time the HAPIV (bird flu) had been identified in a cetacean in North America.

The virus recovered from the dolphin belonged to clade 2.3.4.4b of the Eurasian H5 viral lineage.

Wild birds have spread H5 clade 2.3.4.4b HPAIV throughout the USA in 2022.

As of September 7, 2022, the USDA reported that 39 states had confirmed the loss of over 43 million birds due to HAPIV infections this year.

“While obviously, the presence of HPAIV is a concern, the key takeaway for us is that additional caution should be taken by those handling or encountering wild dolphins during rescue events or while performing necropsies,” said Mike Walsh, D.V.M., a clinical associate professor with UF’s College of Veterinary Medicine who performed the dolphin’s necropsy with others.

HAPIV infections have become common in birds; however, fatal infections have also been reported in red foxes, raccoons, striped skunks, and harbor seals in 2022. HAPIV was also found as the cause of death of a black bear.

The U.S. CDC says avian influenza is a contagious respiratory illness caused by various zoonotic (animal) viruses.

The H5N1 bird flu virus emerged in southern China in 1996, later causing large poultry outbreaks in 1997, resulting in 18 human infections.

The H5N1 bird flu viruses were not eradicated and re-surfaced in 2003, spreading throughout Asia and later in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Since 2003, 19 countries have reported more than 860 human infections with H5N1 bird flu viruses, with about 53% of those cases resulting in fatalities.

In contrast to previous ‘bird flu outbreaks, only two non-fatal human cases with current H5N1 bird flu viruses have been reported.

One infection occurred in December 2021 in a person in the U.K. who raised birds.

A second human case was reported in Colorado in April 2022 in a person who was culling H5N1 virus-infected poultry.

Since annual flu shots do not protect people from bird flu infections, the U.S. government has approved a vaccine and could distribute it if a person-to-person bird flu outbreak occurs.

The U.S. FDA authorized CSL Seqirus’ Audenz monovalent cell-based vaccine in 2020.

The good news from the U.S. CDC is…. that the public health risk associated with these avian influenza detections in birds remains low as of September 8, 2022.

Other avian influenza news is posted at PrecisionVaccinations.com/Avian.

Note: Sarah Carey, Public Relations Director, UF College of Veterinary Medicine, wrote the original article, which was manually curated for mobile readership.

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Don Ward Hackett

[Note: The photo is not a fair representation of how “Thanksgiving” turkeys have to live.]

For starters, turkeys will be more expensive—and there will be fewer available.

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/2022-thanksgiving-turkey-prices-bird-flu

BY LI GOLDSTEIN

September 16, 2022

Thanksgiving turkey will be more expensive than usual this year due to a nationwide bird flu outbreak that’s already shortened the country’s supply ahead of the holiday.

One of the country’s largest commercial turkey processors, Hormel Foods, anticipates that “lower industry-wide turkey supplies [will] keep prices higher” through the holiday, according to Hormel CFO Jacinth Smiley on an earnings call this month. Hormel’s own supply, also hit by avian flu, is considerably lower this year, Food Dive reports.

With pricier turkeys and far fewer of them than normal, the race to snag the best bird well in advance of the holiday may be even fiercer this fall. But high prices could very well lower turkey consumption altogether around the holiday season. Last year, when fresh turkey prices rose 10% above those of 2020, turkey sales dropped 6%, according to a Forbes report. Turkey shopping may happen earlier this year, too, and some shoppers may opt instead for cheaper chicken or turkey breast, Carman Allison, a vice president at NielsenIQ, tells Forbes.

Avian influenza doesn’t pose a health concern to humans, but it’s deadly to birds that contract it. In order to contain outbreaks, farmers must kill entire flocks of turkeys—and this year, they killed around 5.4 million turkeys between January and July due to exposure, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Since mid-July of this year, 10 outbreaks have impacted roughly 617,200 birds in 39 states. July is also when producers begin raising Thanksgiving turkeys.

While outbreaks aren’t unusual on their own, they’re normally halted by the onset of warmer weather. That’s not the case this year, with the flu persisting into the hottest months and even in a late-summer heat wave in California.

In fact, this outbreak could match or outpace the worst in recent history: In 2015, the bird flu afflicted over 50 million turkeys before control measures and warm weather saw it plateau. Since January of this year, 40.8 million birds have already been affected by the outbreak.

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Should we introduce “days without hunting” ? Created following a petition asking for the measure, a Senate mission answered no on Wednesday, September 14, while proposing a series of new rules, including a ban on the consumption of alcohol and narcotics while hunting.

The mission had been set up last November, after more than 120,000 people had signed on the site of the upper assembly a petition launched by the collective “Un jour un chasseur”, created following the death of a young man 25 year old Morgan Keane, “shot by a hunter while chopping wood in his garden” in the Lot. In particular, it called for the establishment of “Sundays and Wednesdays without hunting” or even of “protective distances around residential areas which are equal to the maximum range of weapons”.

On the days without hunting, advocated during the presidential campaign by candidates Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the mission rejected “a uniform national rule”while saying “convinced that local demands must be heard”. She therefore suggests “allow prefects to limit hunting days and times to ensure people’s safety” and establish a “mandatory prior declaration of big game hunts”, the most accident-prone.

According to figures from the French Office for Biodiversity, the number of hunting accidents has been on a downward trend for twenty years. For the 2021/22 season, “The OFB has identified 90 hunting accidents in total (bodily injuries related to the use of a hunting weapon), including eight fatalities. Among these, two involved non-hunter victims”. Opponents of hunting point out that the number of hunters is decreasing, this decrease is normal. According to the figures cited by the senatorial mission, in twenty years the number of accidents has fallen by 46%, that of deaths by 74%, while the number of hunters has fallen less, by 29%.

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Instead, it suggests creating “an offense of obstructing the carrying out of legal sporting or leisure activities”, a claim by hunters against activists who are trying in particular to prevent hunting with hounds. She also rejects the idea of ​​protective distances, emphasizing that they “would lead, given the range of weapons, to ban hunting in a large part of France”. On the other hand, it offers“prohibit alcohol and the use of narcotics while hunting” and D’“align the blood alcohol level retained, the prohibition of narcotics as well as their respective sanctions with the rules in force in terms of the Highway Code”.

Among the 30 proposals are also measures to strengthen training, without raising the age of obtaining the license but in “generalizing tutoring”, or the obligation to pass a first aid certificate and an annual medical examination. The president of the National Federation of Hunters Willy Schraen denounced “totally exaggerated proposals and for some stigmatizing”. On alcohol, he pointed out that he was involved in “7% of hunting accidents [9% selon la mission sénatoriale]much less than on the road”. “What right do you have to reserve that for hunters, a drunk guy on a bike is dangerous too”he fumed.