Flight of fancy.When the U.S. Department of Agriculture lifted its eight-month poultry quarantine Sept. 16, Southern California farmers and the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. breathed a sigh of relief. The zoo had shuttered its two popular walk-in aviaries, each containing 100 birds, and cancelled off-site educational activities involving birds when the U.S.D.A. imposed an Exotic Newcastle Disease Newcastle disease, pneumoencephalitis, acute viral disease of domestic poultry. Newcastle disease is characterized by sneezing, coughing, and nervous behavior. Affected birds may show tremors, circling, falling, twisting of the head and neck, or complete paralysis. quarantine over much of Southern California. "We had to capture our free-roaming peacocks and house them in enclosures and test them--they came up negative," said Cynthia Stringfield, the zoo's senior veterinarian veterinarian /vet·er·i·nar·i·an/ (vet?er-i-nar´e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet·er·i·nar·i·an n. . "It was hard to catch them, but it was fun." The zoo had to take similar precautions in the petting zoo during the 2001 outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease hoof-and-mouth disease: see foot-and-mouth disease. in England. |
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