RIVERVIEW, Fla. — For Kayla Toole, it was love at first cuddle. “I knew the second I picked up those first two ducklings that I was a duck person,” she said with a smile. Toole now owns eight ducks.

Bigger than mallards and unusual in appearance, the Muscovy duck species is common in Florida and some cities in the U.S.

A Muscovy duck shakes water loose from its feathers at Coral Reef Park in Palmetto Bay, Florida, on Thursday, April 13, 2023. D.A. Varela [email protected] Following outrage over the killing of ...

Muscovy duck reovirus (MDRV) causes high morbidity and mortality in ducklings. However, the molecular basis for pathogenesis of this virus remains poorly understood, and the complete genome sequence ...