Experts in Mexico say that the warming Pacific ocean currents known as El Niño, not avian flu, were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of birds along Mexico’s Pacific coast this year
When hundreds of birds were found dead along Mexico’s Pacific coast earlier this year, experts immediately suspected avian flu.
But the government said Thursday that the warming Pacific ocean currents associated with El Niño, not bird flu, were responsible for the mass die-off.
Mexico’s Agriculture Department said Thursday that tests on the dead birds revealed they had died of starvation, not flu.
