Experts see signs of mental distress as Americans grieve Most Americans are experiencing some level of emotional distress following the attacks, which thrust an entire nation into grieving. Officials vote to remove Carter ambulance board Siding with Judge-Executive Alice Joy Binion, the Carter County Fiscal Court voted Wednesday to uphold her removal of the county ambulance service's board of directors. Twenty-one hundred flags weren't enough for all of the mourners who crowded into Louisville's Jefferson Square yesterday for a memorial service honoring emergency service workers who died in last week's terrorist attacks on the United States. Birds in Woodford, Jefferson show signs of West Nile virus Dead birds found in Jefferson and Woodford counties apparently were infected with West Nile virus, health officials said yesterday. The virus is carried by birds and spread by mosquitoes.
Humans can contract it.
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