Crowds of crows spread C. jejuni: Are humans vulnerable?

(American Society for Microbiology) Large, highly concentrated populations of crows can easily spread disease -- not only amongst their own species, but quite possibly to humans, either via livestock, or directly. On the campus of the University of California, Davis, during winter, approximately half of the 6,000 American crows that congregated at the study site carried Campylobacter jejuni, which is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in humans in industrialized countries
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