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Article: WEST NILE VIRUS: A NEW AND DEADLY THREAT FOR SAGE GROUSE
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
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- May 15, 2005
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CHEYENNE -- As if they didn't have enough problems, a new and
particularly lethal threat assaulted sage grouse in 2003: West Nile
virus.
Infection with West Nile virus is a virtual death sentence to the
bird. Ominously, not a single sage grouse infected by researchers
with the virus has survived, according to Terry Creekmore, the
state's West Nile virus coordinator.
Efforts to find West Nile survivors in the wild also have come up
empty-handed. But he said he remains optimistic.
"No virus is completely lethal," he said. "There's always some
survivors. We just haven't found them yet."
According to Tom Christiansen, the state's sage grouse coordinator
at the Wyoming Game and Fish ...