Michelle Crocheck, a veterinary medical officer at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories, explains how caged chickens will be used to test for the deadly avian influenza virus, Tuesday, May 23, 2006, in Ames, Iowa. Researchers at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service site make the final confirmatory diagnoses for the virus.
Seven-week-old healthy chickens are housed in a National Veterinary Services Laboratories where tests will be conducted for the deadly avian influenza virus, Tuesday, May 23, 2006, in Ames, Iowa. Researchers at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service site make the final confirmatory diagnoses for the virus.
Dan Emanueli (left) and Scott Healy (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, prepare equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). This particular operation took place at a state park in Maryland.
Kevin Sullivan (left), Scott Healy (center), and Dan Emanueli (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, prepare the equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The equipment consists of a net launched over the flock of birds as they feed on the ground.
Kevin Sullivan (left), Scott Healy (center), and Dan Emanueli (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, prepare the equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The equipment consists of a net launched over the flock of birds as they feed on the ground.
Dan Emanueli, a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologist, prepares the equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The equipment consists of a net launched over the flock of birds as they feed on the ground.
Kevin Sullivan (left), Scott Healy (center), and Dan Emanueli (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, prepare the equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The equipment consists of a net launched over the flock of birds as they feed on the ground.
Scott Healy (left), and Dan Emanueli (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, prepare the equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). Healy secures the device that will launch a net over the birds as they feed on bait being placed by Emanueli.
Dan Emanueli, a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologist, prepares the equipment necessary for the humane capture of migratory birds to be tested for avian influenza (AI). Emanueli connects wires of the charges that will launch a net over the birds as they feed on the ground.
Kevin Sullivan (left) and Scott Healy (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, untangle gulls captured to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The birds are placed in containers and removed individually to have a series of tests performed to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of AI in migratory birds.
Kevin Sullivan (standing) and Scott Healy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, untangle gulls captured at a state park in Maryland to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The birds are placed in containers and removed individually to have a series of tests performed to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of AI in migratory birds.
Scott Healy (left) and Kevin Sullivan (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, untangle gulls captured to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The birds are placed in containers and removed individually to have a series of tests performed to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of AI in migratory birds.
Dan Emanueli (left) and Kevin Sullivan (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, untangle gulls captured to be tested for avian influenza (AI). The birds are placed in containers and removed individually to have a series of tests performed to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of AI in migratory birds.
Scott Healy (left) and Dan Emanueli (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, perform a series of tests to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of avian influenza (AI) in migratory birds.
Scott Healy (left) and Dan Emanueli (right), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, perform a series of tests to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of avian influenza (AI) in migratory birds.
Scott Healy (left) and Dan Emanueli (center), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, and Dr. Cindy Driscoll, DVM, a veterinarian with the State of Maryland, perform a series of tests to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of avian influenza (AI) in migratory birds.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) performs tests to determine if avian influenza (AI) is present in migratory birds. The tests include fluid samples that are analyzed to verify the presence of AI in birds imported to the United States.
Scott Healy (left), and Dan Emanueli (center), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wildlife biologists, and Dr. Cindy Driscoll, DVM, a veterinarian with the State of Maryland, perform a series of tests to gather material to be analyzed to verify the presence of avian influenza (AI) in migratory birds. The gull being tested was captured at a state park in Maryland.
A gull waiting to be released after being tested as part of the effort to monitor avian influenza (AI).
A gull flys away after being captured, tested and released in Maryland as part of the effort to monitor avian influenza (AI).