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Influenza
Reports from J.P. Graham and co-researchers add new data to research in influenza
May 27th, 2008
"Understanding interactions between animals and humans is critical in preventing outbreaks of zoonotic disease. This is particularly important for avian influenza," investigators in the United States report. "Food animal production has been transformed since the 1918 influenza pandemic. Poultry and swine production have changed from small-scale methods to industrial-scale operations. There is substantial evidence of pathogen movement between and among these industrial facilities, release to the external environment, and exposure to farm workers, which challenges the assumption that modern poultry production is more biosecure and biocontained as compared with backyard or...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-27)
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