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Bird deaths blamed on vitamin deficiency

Lack of thiamine may be causing fatal paralysis around the Baltic Sea

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Mysterious bird deaths around the Baltic Sea and possibly elsewhere in the world may be caused by a shortage of the vitamin thiamine, researchers say.

VITAMIN SHORT A herring gull is succumbing to a fatal paralysis, now identified as the result of a thiamine deficiency.