Bird Flu
Research from University of Kansas in the area of bird flu described
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, September 8th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "The emerging highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1 (''HPAI-H5N1'') has spread broadly in the past decade, and is now the focus of considerable concern. We tested the hypothesis that spatial distributions of HPAI-H5N1 cases are related consistently and predictably to coarse-scale environmental features in the Middle East and northeastern Africa."
"We used ecological niche models to relate virus occurrences to 8 km resolution digital data layers summarizing parameters of monthly surface reflectance and landform. Predictive challenges included a variety of spatial stratification schemes in which models were...
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