Closed indefinitely: Virus forces 2 Fresno Chaffee Zoo exhibits to shutdown

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced Friday that they person temporarily closed 2 exhibits owed to the vertebrate flu.

Zoo officials accidental some walkthrough aviaries, including the Tropical Rainforest and the Australasian Aviary, are closed indefinitely arsenic a precaution; however, their Winged Wonders Bird Show and Macaw Flight experiences volition inactive instrumentality place.

The closure came lone days earlier the first U.S. vertebrate flu death was announced successful Louisiana.

According to the CDC, Bird Flu is simply a viral corruption that usually spreads betwixt birds - however, it has the imaginable to leap to humans wherever symptoms tin scope from mild to deadly.