Monday, May 7 Salt Lake City - State health officials plan to test chickens for the deadly West Nile virus for the first time this summer, although they don't believe the virus has reached Utah. Blood samples will be taken from 21 chicken flocks caged in mosquito-infected marshes. The mosquito-borne virus showed up in the USA two years ago. One intersection near downtown controlled by a stop sign had 17 accidents in 1999 but none since converting to a roundabout almost a year ago, according to a Provo traffic engineer. Provo has seven roundabouts, with five more planned.
Environmentalists say the trade-off is unacceptable.
Grand Staircase monument covers 1.7 million acres. Weber State University, Utah State University and the University of Utah will receive most of the funding.