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New York Owl Felled By Herpes

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City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes.


The virus is not transmissible to humans.

[Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki’s Nature, Creative Commons.]

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