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 PressA 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
or here http://gov.state.ak.us/news.php
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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
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There are no follow-up links to the agencies and their official notifications, unfortunately.
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