There's a family of cardinals near my house with something like that disease. They have feathers everywhere but the head, which means the black skin beneath is exposed. They look beyond creepy.
I'm going to go ahead and pile on with everyone else. The headline in question accurately summarized what was happening, and wasn't even written by CNN. The illustration, however, made no sense. What's that thing holding the baby? A giant tapeworm?
(sorry, but I had to say it eventually)
Ha. You could call the font 'ransom note'.