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Bird Flu Epidemiology
Research from J. Hars and co-authors provides new data about bird flu epidemiology
December 16th, 2008
New investigation results, 'The epidemiology of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) and other anatidae in the Dombes region (France), 2006,' are detailed in a study published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases. "In February 2006, a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was isolated from Common Pochards (Aythia ferina) in the Dombes region of France, an important migrating and wintering waterfowl area. Thereafter, HPAI H5N1 virus was isolated from 39 swab pools collected from dead waterfowl found in the Dombes, but only from three pooled samples collected outside of this area but located on the same migration flyway," scientists writing in...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-16)
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