51.   The Kansas City Health Department activated its dead bird surveillance program on Tuesday in response to the continuing westward spread of the West Nile virus.

52.   The hunters put their dead birds into garbage bags, collected their empty shells and gathered by their cars to tally their kills.

53.   The result, they believe, will be more dead birds and marine life than anyone will ever know about.

54.   The people who were ill showed symptoms of the disease and they lived in counties where dead birds infected with the virus have been found.

55.   The seagulls, whose numbers are booming in inland cities, started by scavenging the dead birds, Mesure says.

56.   The surveys and removal of dead birds will help the state get a better estimate of the damage done.

57.   The virus turned up recently in dead birds near Syracuse.

58.   The West Nile virus continues to move south in migrating birds, and Florida officials are asking residents to report dead bird sightings, especially crows.

59.   There are no preserved samples of the dead birds, the reservoir itself has been emptied and earlier investigations produced competing explanations of what went wrong.

60.   They crossed a barren landscape of roughly heaped nests, weeds and dead birds.