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Bird flu rampant among black vultures
UGA Today ^ | 03/03/2026

Posted on 03/03/2026 6:07:42 PM PST by devane617

More than four out of every five dead black vultures examined by University of Georgia researchers tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, according to a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports.

The actual toll of the virus on the integral species is likely exponentially higher, though, the researchers warned.

These birds may “represent tens or hundreds of thousands of black vultures,” said Dr. Nicole Nemeth, lead author of the study and head of UGA’s Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study’s research and diagnostic service. Nemeth is also an associate professor in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Black vultures’ indiscriminate scavenging appears to sustain transmission of the virus beyond the typical bird flu season, the study found.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.uga.edu ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avian; maxinewaters; sicklecell; vulture

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I live in a rural part of FL/GA and have noticed a marked reduction of Buzzards and a huge backlog of road-kill going untouched. As devastating as this sounds lets hope it does not mutate to humans.
1 posted on 03/03/2026 6:07:42 PM PST by devane617
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To: devane617

So racist!


2 posted on 03/03/2026 6:08:48 PM PST by JZelle
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To: JZelle

yes, those white vultures (and unicorns) have been systematically targeted so they gathered together and made a noble law.

All the Vultures must be kept EQUAL with the flu and all


3 posted on 03/03/2026 6:15:29 PM PST by algore ( )
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To: devane617

So, one vulture ot it, died, and others ate him, and they got it and died; and so forth and so on.


4 posted on 03/03/2026 6:21:48 PM PST by Fai Mao ( )
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To: devane617

Black Vultures? Is this one still alive?

https://i.imgur.com/MXJ0JM2.png


5 posted on 03/03/2026 6:24:11 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: devane617

My suggestion... Stop eating Buzzards.


6 posted on 03/03/2026 6:38:10 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

I’m not worried about bird flu.
I do think we need to vaccinate people against the islamocommie flu.
People with TDS are ending up in psych wards, prisons and coffins.


7 posted on 03/03/2026 6:47:21 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: devane617

About twenty years ago I remember flocks of millions of blackbirds in the woods behind our house. The noise was deafening. And I also remember columns of blackbirds flying overhead for hours at a time. The flocks would stretch from horizon to horizon.

Then avian flu happened.

The blackbird population has just recently returned to a semi-normal level.

Black Vultures are notorious in our area for killing calves. A little avian flu might not be such a bad thing.


8 posted on 03/03/2026 6:47:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies with Democrats.)
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To: devane617

Seems to be going round…

“Around 70 black vultures were found dead at St. Bernadette School in Pierce Township, Ohio, in early December 2025, with final laboratory results confirming the cause as H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The carcasses were discovered near school baseball fields, leading to a cleanup operation.”


9 posted on 03/03/2026 6:50:36 PM PST by chuck allen ( )
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To: devane617

Here in MO, there are ads telling farmers how to get a special license to kill black vultures, since unlike other vultures/buzzards they often attack small living animals like calves and lambs.


10 posted on 03/03/2026 6:58:02 PM PST by hanamizu
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There was usually three dozen black buzzards hanging around my area gun club, but I only missed them after reading this. I haven’t noticed any of them for some time.


11 posted on 03/03/2026 7:20:52 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (@!@)
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To: JZelle

Yeah, what you said!


12 posted on 03/03/2026 7:24:23 PM PST by MNJohnnie
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To: devane617
Same here in Southern Alabama. I still see turkey vultures, but hardy any black vultures. They're very easy t tell apart, Turkeys are bigger and have a lighter outer underside on the wings all the way to the body, while blacks have only the underside "hands" of their wings lighter.


13 posted on 03/03/2026 7:37:51 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Conservatives can't afford to sit out. Vote like your freedom depends on it, it does!)
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To: JZelle
Guilty - first thought was Jesse just died but Sharpton, Abrams, Maxine and the other hustlers are still "representin'".

Seriously though, my state of Tennessee is rife with turkey vultures who do a great job eliminating the road kill. Except on the busy freeways - they're too smart to risk becoming another casualty. I'll see the same deer carcass 10 days in a row in a meridian and KNOW the troopers and highway guys have seen it.

14 posted on 03/03/2026 8:38:15 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (simulating wisdom at discount prices.)
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To: devane617

So is someone going to demand the slaughter of all the black vultures, like they do for commercially raised birds used for food?

Idiot democrats.......


15 posted on 03/03/2026 9:22:22 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: devane617

Survival of the fittest will kick in.

I guess people forget about natural selection that would produce birds resistant to the bird flu if they just let it take its course. Plus the flu would mutate into a less virulent form.

All I recall about bird flu is that someone got pink eye from it and allegedly ONE person died from it.


16 posted on 03/03/2026 9:24:58 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: devane617
Getting too close to their fellow looters.


17 posted on 03/03/2026 11:04:36 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: devane617

Watchu talkin bout, Willard?


18 posted on 03/04/2026 12:05:32 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: JZelle

Its funny how birds naturally segregate.
They seem smarter then humans in some ways.


19 posted on 03/04/2026 3:00:17 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships)
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