Emmanuel the emu, who caused hysteria online last week when his caretaker suggested he could possibly have contracted the remarkably contagious fowl flu, is Okay.
It turns out Emmanuel became sick from worry, his caretaker, Taylor Blake, stated in a lengthy Twitter update in excess of the weekend.
Blake’s video clips of Emmanuel went viral this year, having hundreds of thousands of sights on TikTok and boosting the emu’s movie star.
Blake announced this thirty day period that Emmanuel had fallen unwell following a flock of wild Egyptian geese visited Knuckle Bump Farms, the pastime farm in South Florida where by the emu life.
Geese and other styles of waterfowl are carriers of avian influenza, which they can go through saliva, mucus and droppings.
Read the full tale at NBCNews.com.
