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 WASHINGTON (AP) - A deadly bird flu virus will likely slip into the United States through a pretty package: either majestic swans flying across the Bering Strait into Alaska or from smuggled exotic wildlife at one of the nation's ports.
Its detection probably will depend on watching to see if hundreds of birds die at once, Interior Department officials said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press, adding it may not show up at all in 2006.
"From my perspective, I would say swans are the starting point because we found the disease already, or Europe has found them, in swans," said H. Dale Hall, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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