Huffington Post – by Lynne Peeples
When Rick Ostfeld heard about the sky-darkening flocks of birds descending this winter on Hopkinsville, Ky., he couldn’t help but think of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
“I remember watching it multiple times as a kid, just to scare myself,” said Ostfeld, a disease ecologist with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. Continue reading “Kentucky Birds, New York Rats Raise Disease Risks”