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Bird Flu Epidemiology
New findings from French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) in the area of bird flu epidemiology described
March 25th, 2008
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Double introduction of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus into France in early 2006.' "Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of subtype H5N1 have spread since late 2003 in East and Southeast Asia. In April 2005, a large-scale outbreak of H5N1 infection that occurred in migratory waterfowl in Qinghai Lake nature reserve in western China, killing more than 6000 wild birds, appeared to be the beginning of a epizootic that caused outbreaks in domestic and wild birds in nearly 60 countries from Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa," scientists writing in the journal Avian Pathology report. ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-03-25)
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