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The Avian Influenza has claimed the lives of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo announced they received results that confirmed the highly pathogenic Avian ...

The flamingo was named Teal, and the harbor seal was named Slater. Unfortunately, Slater and Teal became the first Lincoln Park Zoo animals ever to contract bird flu. Officials are unsure how the ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo — a seal and a flamingo — died of bird flu last week, the zoo announced Wednesday. The Chilean flamingo, Teal, died Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Lincoln Park Zoo Share Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo announced Wednesday. The flamingo, named Teal ...

Slater the seal. That includes several house cats whose illnesses in California last month were traced to a bird flu contamination in brands of raw pet food. "Sharing this news of highly ...

Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.