Via The Tundra Drums: Ten villages monitoring spring migrants for avian flu. Excerpt: This spring, Danny Mann will be on the front lines of the avian influenza surveillance effort in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Though the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, as it’s commonly called, has never appeared anywhere in North America, public health and wildlife professionals are monitoring birds at the leading edge of the spring migration. For his part, Mann has signed on a
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