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Have you noticed that stories about measles have been popping up in the news a lot lately? At first, I didn’t pay much attention, but then I decided to look into what is going on, and I was quite alarmed by what I found.
"It’s going to be here, and we have to have some way to deal with it."
It's likely the polar bear was infected after scavenging dead birds, according to local officials.
Bird flu was first identified in China in 1996. It is also known as H5N1. A contagious disease, bird flu is a variant of the influenza virus.
In the last two years, as more wild birds got sick, different animals like dolphins, porpoises, seals, foxes, and otters also got the disease.