Diseases

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Environment

Deadly white-nose disease is spreading in Western Washington bats

A deadly disease in bats is spreading in western Washington.
John Ryan
Health

Washington's state vet says bunny-killing virus is 'here to stay'

The town of Langley on Whidbey Island has a unique tourist attraction - wild bunnies. These don’t look like your regular, run of the mill wild rabbits. Instead, they’re the cute, soft, ‘just want to squeeze them’ bunnies you’d see in a pet store. But now, those bunnies are in trouble.
Libby Denkmann

Noel Gasca
Environment

Pizza-sized predators to get federal protection

The world’s fastest sea star could get a little boost from the U.S. government.
John Ryan
Environment

Deadly flu hits Washington birds

Wildlife officials have found hundreds of dead snow geese around Washington’s Skagit Bay, suspected victims of highly pathogenic avian influenza: bird flu.
John Ryan
A 3.5-million-pound problem: More than a million chickens near Pasco have bird flu

More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County, Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu. Officials are now deliberating on how to transport, bury, compost or incinerate the birds.
Anna King
Health

As avian influenza outbreak worsens, local farms remain cautious

Washington lies along a major flyway for birds. Each winter, millions of migrating birds stop in in the state on their way somewhere else. That's a cause for concern as the United States experiences the worst avian influenza outbreak in its history, with more than 50 million birds dying from the virus.
Mike Davis

Jeannie Yandel

Alec Cowan
Environment

The case of the dying newts: an Olympic Peninsula mystery

I can’t tell you where I interviewed Max Lambert, but I can tell you what we saw. It wasn’t pretty.
John Ryan
Environment

'Yogurt for bats': A new way to fight a deadly pandemic

Washington scientists hope a strange new concoction can save these creatures of the night from their mortal enemy. They call it “yogurt for bats.”
John Ryan
Health

Lessons from the last time Seattle let its pandemic guard down, in 1918

We'll take a look back now to more than a century ago on the dangers of letting our guard down over the holidays. During the 1918 flu pandemic, Seattle put in place some tight restrictions on masking and gathering. The decisions that followed were catastrophic. So writes Knute Birger, Editor-at-large for Crosscut.
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
Politics

Quarantines and phoning in votes this week

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Erica C Barnett of The C is for Crank, Crosscut reporter David Kroman, and Crosscut audience engagement manager Mohammed Kloub.
Bill Radke

Sarah Leibovitz

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