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Wildlife officials said that over the summer, a team of scientists across the East Coast has been scrambling to identify the source of the illness, which had also been giving the birds neurological issues. The reports of sick and dying birds came not only from Virginia but from D.C., Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky.