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H5N1: New Outbreaks Photos


March 9, 2006

The spring migration of birds from Asia to Alaska is expected to start in April and this year it will encounter a beefed-up federal effort to look for bird flu. A deadly strain of bird flu could appear in the U.S. in the next few months as wild birds migrate from infected nations, Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said.

(Photo: AP/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)