After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.

A harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo died from the bird flu this month at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, officials said.

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Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.

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The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next ...

Their deaths came within a day of each other, the Chicago zoo said in a Jan. 15 news release. Teal, a months-old Chilean ...

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Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo announced the death of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo as a result of the Avian Influenza, a highly pathogenic disease in free-ranging waterfowls.

The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.