What steps are available to eradicate the virus?
• There is no guarantee that we will ever be able to completely eradicate the virus. To completely eradicate the virus would possibly include having to complete many or all of the steps below: • Attempting to complete each of the above steps creates problems and more questions. • The ducks at our lake are dispersed through the surrounding neighborhoods and if we miss just one duck that is a carrier, a very likely result would have been the destruction of many ducks that a great many citizens enjoy, only to fail to remove the virus from the population. • Draining and dredging the lake will be time consuming, very expensive, and would require that we sacrifice the additional wildlife that make their home at the lake. This would include the fish, frogs, turtles, etc. • Monitoring and balancing the ph balance of the lake would be difficult. Our lake receives runoff from many sources and this influx constantly changes the lake’s ph balance. The amount of chemicals that would have to be adde
