Mystery Illness Leaves Thousands of Lorikeets, Flying Foxes Unable to Fly or Blink

The condition is largely found in Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Mystery Illness Leaves Thousands of Lorikeets, Flying Foxes Unable to Fly or Blink
A Rainbow Lorikeet sitting on the flower of a Banksia Ashbyi shrub. Greg Wood/Getty Images
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A mysterious illness has hospitalised record numbers of Australian rainbow lorikeets and flying foxes in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales.