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Disease outbreak in Redwood Shores pond kills 185 ducks in one week
By Bonnie Eslinger
Daily News Staff Writer
POSTED: 01/11/2014 03:00:00 AM PST
Citing a serious threat to wildlife, a wastewater treatment agency is draining a Redwood Shores pond popular with bird watchers where an outbreak of avian cholera has killed about 185 ducks in one week.
The disease does not pose a threat to humans, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official said in an announcement sent out Friday by the South Bayside System Authority.
Although officials aren't certain how the bacteria that causes the disease entered the pond located off Radio Road, they suspect birds that flew in from the East Bay transmitted it, said Daniel Child, the authority's general manager. He said there's been an avian cholera outbreak in a Hayward regional park.
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By Bonnie Eslinger
Daily News Staff Writer
POSTED: 01/11/2014 03:00:00 AM PST
Citing a serious threat to wildlife, a wastewater treatment agency is draining a Redwood Shores pond popular with bird watchers where an outbreak of avian cholera has killed about 185 ducks in one week.
The disease does not pose a threat to humans, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official said in an announcement sent out Friday by the South Bayside System Authority.
Although officials aren't certain how the bacteria that causes the disease entered the pond located off Radio Road, they suspect birds that flew in from the East Bay transmitted it, said Daniel Child, the authority's general manager. He said there's been an avian cholera outbreak in a Hayward regional park.
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