Aaron Specht, assistant professor in the Purdue University School of Health Sciences, has investigated bird flu cases in critically endangered California condors since 2023, soon after 21 condors died from an avian flu event. Specht administered a vaccine developed by \u201canimal health company\u201d Zoetis for vultures to prevent the spread of bird flu. Specht also used his trusty X-ray fluorescence technology to scan birds for potential lead poisoning and see how such an exposure would interact with the vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[2123,2128,2127,2125,2126,240,176,2130,2124,1602],"class_list":["post-44121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-sciences","category-research","tag-aaron-specht","tag-avian-flu","tag-bird-flu","tag-california-condors","tag-lead-exposure","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-vaccine","tag-vultures","tag-xrf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n