You have to test the birds and test the water. If you find it in a lake, influenzas can hang around for a month. Some studies have shown it staying over 200 days.

Minks are susceptible, and of course, pigs will be important, as well. They're sort of a mixing vessel. They have receptors that are similar to birds but also to humans.

I think it will probably be here sooner, but it's one of those guess points of people in ornithology. If you have the summer, you have breeding birds over in Europe. Then they'll probably go north, mix again (with birds in Alaska), and then next fall and next winter, we could start seeing it.

We know it infects cats - that's unheard of. Cats do not get influenza.

We weren't going to leave but we were told that 18 to 20 feet of water in New Orleans we knew we had to get the kids out, ... It was a mandatary evacuation so we put what we could in the car and left and been on the road ever since.

I'm sure they are disappointed. The purpose of Lake Maloney is as a regulating reservoir for holding water before it is released to the hydro plant.