Access

News Feature

Nature 442, 348-350 (27 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442348a; Published online 26 July 2006

Bird flu: On border patrol

Erika Check1

  1. Erika Check covers the biomedical sciences for Nature.
Top

The United States has embarked on a huge effort to try to track the H5N1 avian flu virus in birds migrating into the country. But is surveillance more urgently needed elsewhere? Erika Check reports.

On a Sunday afternoon in June, graduate student Brad Comstock is standing on the flat, soggy tundra at the edge of the Bering Sea. He surveys the network of shallow ponds stretching out in front of him, and the vast delta reaching to the horizon beyond.

Apache Tomcat/5.0.7 - Error report

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception 

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception

root cause 

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.

Apache Tomcat/5.0.7