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Tracey McNamara had never seen anything like it. In July, dead crows began turning up by the dozens at New York City's Bronx Zoo. By August, McNamara, the zoo's staff pathologist, had collected carcasses of 40 birds. Meanwhile Dr. Deborah Asnis, an infectious-disease specialist at Flushing Hospital in Queens, reported the admission of two elderly patients with muscle weakness, fever and confusion...
...Bronx Zoo, however, pathologist McNamara was becoming increasingly concerned that the coincidence was too unlikely to ignore. Over the Labor Day weekend, several rare birds in the zoo's collection had suddenly died, and her autopsies showed heart and brain damage. She promptly sent tissue samples to a U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinary lab in Ames, Iowa. Finding no evidence of equine encephalitis or other suspected pathogens, the lab forwarded her samples to a CDC lab in Fort Collins, Colo., for further study...
When Adams tightens their bans, not only are Quadlings majorly inconvenienced, but so are those of us who live in Quincy House. Since Adams started enforcing their ban last week, Quincy dining hall at noon has become a complete zoo. I had to wait five minutes today just to get my card swiped, and then it's almost impossible to find a place to sit, especially if one wants to have enough seats to be able to sit with friends...
...National Zoo, where admission is free, doesn't have deep pockets. Its fund raisers have pledged $2.5 million over the next 10 years, plus help in conducting a panda census in China and developing a satellite monitoring system...
...team of zoologists leaves this week for Beijing in hopes of finalizing the negotiations, which were complicated by the bombing of China's Belgrade embassy. Pandas are so precious to Chinese diplomacy that the Premier must give his O.K. Zoo officials estimate new pandas would each year bring an additional 400,000 visitors and $1.2 million in concession sales...