Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> West Nile virus – Americas (12): USA (CA)
PRO/AH/EDR> West Nile virus – Americas (12): USA (CA)
West Nile Virus -- United StatesThe chickens are used to the needles. They don't fuss when vector ecologist Tanya Posey pulls opens the door of a coop in a community garden here, firmly grasps a Leghorn, and pulls a blood sample out of its wing vein. She's so good, she can bleed a chicken in about 30 seconds. That's helpful, because she has a lot of chickens to test.More than 6 dozen sentinel chickens, living in coops dotted around Los Angeles, make up one of the 1st lines of defense in this sprawling Read more [...]
