SENTINEL CHICKENS.

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State officials plan to deploy small flocks of chickens around New Jersey this spring as a natural alarm system to help guard against a virus that killed seven people in New York last summer, according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. The chickens' blood will be tested regularly for antibodies that signal infection with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, which is common in parts of Africa, Europe and...

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