The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota says it has been taking in one to three birds a daystricken with avian influenza. Many are severely ill and suffering from seizures.
Executive director Victoria Hall says staff have never seen this much transmission during an avian flu outbreak. She urges people to take extra measures to protect songbirds and other bird species by not filling their backyard bird feeders for a while.
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With rapid tests more accessible and new reporting requirements, public health officials say COVID case counts and positivity rates are less reliable measures of community spread. Instead, they’re looking at how the virus is impacting hospital capacity.
Every year the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fields more than 90,000 phone calls and 25,000 emails with questions that run from the mundane to the wacky. A team of DNR workers hustles to answer them all, six days a week.
Maplewood police on Wednesday released body camera video showing officers handcuffing four children between the ages of 10 and 16 while they were investigating a call about gunshots. The children’s parents are demanding an apology from police and are seeking changes to the way officers handle encounters with minors.
More than 900 bodies of civilians were discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces. That's according to the regional police chief, who spoke Friday.
