Other Animal Disease — Canada
Possible signs of the parasite known as frounce [_Trichomonas gallinae_] are being spotted in Newfoundland and Labrador birds, and that has the province’s top veterinarian asking the public to take precautions.
Frounce attacks the bird’s crop, a pouch near its throat that acts as an important part of its digestive system. Birds with the disease look sick and weak.
“It causes an infection in the crop of the bird that makes them be unable to swallow, essentially, and they can’t eat and
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