More fish, bird death expected as a result of type E botulism

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According to Michigan Sea Grant, loons, ring-billed gulls, grebes and red-breasted mergansers were among the 2,985 casualties of botulism, a neuromuscular disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulism, along a 12-mile stretch of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

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