Brain disease killing bald eagles traced to unknown cyanobacterium

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2021

North America's bald eagles, once severely threatened by DDT exposure, have rebounded dramatically over the last 50 years. In pockets of the American South, however, scientists have found local eagle populations suffering from outbreaks of a mysterious neurodegenerative disease, called avian vacuolar myelinopathy Now, nearly 30 years after an outbreak of AVM killed hundreds of ea