Wild Bird Tests Positive For Bird Flu

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Otter Tail County has another bird flu case along with two new cases in Stearns County.

A Cooper’s hawk has also tested positive for bird flu and is the first Minnesota wild bird to do so.

The Department of Natural Resources tested the hawk from Yellow Medicine County.

Senator Al Franken says that the hawk discovery could lead to answers about the spread of the disease.

He is pressing the USDA and White House to combat the problem.

“It was pretty much theorized that it was migratory birds and their droppings that was spreading this so maybe that will help confirm how this was spread,” says Sen. Franken.

Governor Dayton has declared the outbreak as a state of emergency.