By Diana Haecker
Nomeites are used to odd sights. But huge cardboard signs saying, “Bird Flu Testing” and “Free Shells” propped up against a rental car at East End Park did warrant a double take. Turns out, researchers were in Nome last week, conducting avian flu testing of subsistence hunted birds, inviting hunters to bring by their harvest for a quick swab.
The researchers were Dr. Lisa Kercher, with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital fro…
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