Mosquito-borne viruses decimate bird populations

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Blackbirds are getting scarce in Edgar Allan Poe?s city.

As few as one in 10 crows survived years of the West Nile Virus in some parts of Baltimore and Washington, according to research published Thursday by the Consortium of Conservation Medicine in the journal Nature.

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