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Cold temperatures promote spread of a bird pink eye pathogen at winter feeders

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Cold temperatures promote spread of a bird pink eye pathogen at winter feeders.

Mycoplasma gallisepticum remains pathogenic on feeder surfaces at cold ambient temperatures for up to one week , much longer than previously documented.

The findings have strong implications for house finches, which require more food in colder months .

Teemer: "Both birds and humans win when it's done responsibly" Other researchers involved in the study included Alicia Arneson , a Ph.D. student in the Hawley Lab , and Edan Tulman and Steven Geary in the University of Connecticut , Storrs .

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