An Alaska Public Health Alert delivered by the State Department of Health on Monday “urges” an increase in vaccination against the flu, COVID-19 and RSV, citing low coverage rates nationwide and below average rates in Alaska.
A strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1 HPAI, was found in a backyard flock of poultry and ducks in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley on Saturday, according to a