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malian adaptation,” said Burns. “That will help us determine: is there increased human health risk?”

The skunks likely became infected after eating dead wild birds carrying the virus, said Burns.

She repeated the Ministry of Agriculture and Food message, released in a press release Monday, that avian flu continues to pose a “low risk to human health.”

The eight skunks add to millions of wild and domestic animals that have been infected with bird flu since an international series emerged early in 2022.

Since then, outbreaks have swept North America, Europe and Asia over the past year

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A woman was walking in Vancouver when a box on the street started to move To her surprise, there were three tiny bunnies inside that had been abandoned.

Sorelle Saidman, the founder of Rabbitats Rescue Society, received the call from the woman, who found the rabbits on Cardero Street and went to go pick them up on Tuesday.

“They were terrified They were frozen They were just terrified little beasts and they didn’t move for hours at all,” she says

Saidman describes the pet bunnies as purebred Holland lops, which are very desirable One of the rabbits is likely pregnant

“They are very thin and they need a bit of recovery time,” she says

Saidman believes the owners of the bunnies were irresponsible and questions if they tried

To Rehome Them

“I think had they made more of an effort to rehome the rabbits these guys were on the top of a want list So they were irresponsible in that respect,” she says

Currently, Rabbitats is being called every day with people trying to give away their pet rabbits

“Right now, if you get somebody who’s got a post-COVID bunny, and they’re going back to work, they can’t take care of their rabbit I don’t think there’s anybody who would be able to take those rabbits,” she told Glacier Media

She’s concerned about a possible feral colony of rabbits in Vancouver

“You dump a litter of five or six rabbits and they give birth every 31 days, their litters are getting bigger than ever, ” she says “It costs an awful lot more to take 40 rabbits out of the environment than it does to take two ”

She hopes municipalities will start making arrangements to take in rabbits