Mystery of Mass Animal Death Epidemic Deepens After 8,000 Turtle Doves Fall Dead in Italy With Strange Blue Stain on Their Beaks

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the globe.

Residents in
Faenza described the birds falling to the ground like ‘little Christmas
balls’ with strange blue stains on their beaks.

Initial tests
have been caused by poisoning or hypoxia.

A witness told ‘We have
no idea why this happened all of a sudden.

‘The doves

Hypoxia, a
It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness.

Experts said
a week.

They said that

It comes after
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

The alarming
find is being blamed by authorities in Maryland on the stress caused
by unusually cold water and overbreeding among spot fish.

That investigation
comes just days after the deaths of an estimated 100,000 fish in
northwest Arkansas, which is being blamed on disease.

A statement
by the Maryland Department of the Environment said: ‘Natural causes
appear to be the reason.

‘Cold water
stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species
(juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill.’

tests of the water in Chesapeake Bay have showed the quality was
acceptable, officials said.

The statement
added: ‘The affected fish are almost exclusively juvenile spot fish,
three to six inches in length.

‘A recent survey
increased juvenile population and limited deep water habitat would
likely compound the effects of cold water stress.’

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8, 2011

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