The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Wildlife managers in the upper Midwest expect the first results soon from tests that could provide an early warning on whether ducks flying south for the winter are carrying the deadly kind of avian influenza that devastated the region's poultry earlier this year.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources staffers were in the field for the opening of waterfowl season, collecting about 500 samples from ducks shot by hunters. That put them more than halfway to their goal of 800, said Lou Cornicelli, the MDNR's wildlife research manager.
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