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Little Cayman faces fast-spreading coral disease
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, first detected in Little Cayman in August 2025, is spreading rapidly — advancing nearly a mile each month and putting the island’s marine life at risk.
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Cayman’s bird flu outbreak contained, but surveillance continues
“We’re starting to return to some semblance of normalcy.” That was how Department of Agriculture Senior Veterinary Officer Dr. Tiffany Chisholm described the current status of the H5N1 avian flu outbreak that took place during November and December last year.
The first confirmed case of avian influenza was detected on 28 Nov., when a chicken at a Cemetery Road farm tested positive after several turkeys on the property were found dead. Subsequent testing at the same site confirmed the presence of the virus in chickens, quail, farmed ducks, a wild whistling duck and a goose.
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