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Test results (maybe)

Published 2006 June 9 H5N1 , birds , public involvement

This just came in through my Google news alert. I cannot find any mention on the state’s flu pages.
http://www.avianflu.alaska.gov/ or here http://www.pandemicflu.alaska.gov/ or here http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/news/dept_releases.php

“Article Last Updated: 06/09/2006 12:49:03 PM AKDT

Bird testing in Alaska reveals no sign of flu
Associated Press

A spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says no highly pathogenic avian H5N21 flu virus has been found in Alaska birds sampled so far. About two-thousand samples have been collected and tested.

Division of Wildlife Conservation director Matt Robus says most of the birds tested were killed by hunters in southwest Alaska and there are no indications that the virus has reached the state.”

Read the rest here–
http://www.ktva.com/alaska/ci_3919388

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1 Pam 2006 June 9 at 8:36 pm

or here http://gov.state.ak.us/news.php
2 Pam 2006 June 9 at 8:58 pm

Yahoo news has a second TV station news item. AP News itself did not have the stories.
“Bird flu samples tested show up negative so far
Fox 12 Oregon - Jun 09 5:05 PM
JUNEAU, Alaska No sign of a deadly avian flu virus has been found yet in the testing of thousands of samples taken from live and subsistence-hunted birds in Alaska.”
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=bird+alaska&x=wrt
3 Pam 2006 June 10 at 10:47 am

There are no follow-up links to the agencies and their official notifications, unfortunately.

Sample tests yet to reveal bird flu virus
ALASKA: State plays a key role as it is a crossroads for avian traffic into Lower 48.

By ANNE SUTTON, The Associated Press
Published: June 10, 2006
Last Modified: June 10, 2006 at 02:38 AM

JUNEAU — Several thousand samples from live and subsistence-hunted birds in Alaska have so far tested negative for the avian flu virus, according to government officials….

Spokesman Bruce Woods said agencies under the Department of the Interior have collected samples from more than 4,000 birds in Alaska, mostly subsistence-hunted fowl.

Just under half of those samples have been tested at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., and none has shown any trace of the highly pathogenic virus.

Spokeswoman Gail Keirn with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the department has collected almost 700 samples so far and all have tested negative for the virus. Those tests are being conducted at USDA certified veterinary labs around the country and the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colo….

http://www.adn.com/life/health/birdflu/story/7838822p-7735355c.html

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