Bird Flu

Reports by B.B. Jia and co-researchers describe recent advances in bird flu

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 30th, 2008

According to recent research from Harbin, People's Republic of China, "It has long been thought that pigeons are resistant against H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses. Recently, however, highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses have demonstrated distinct biological properties that may be capable of causing disease in pigeons."

"To examine the susceptibility of domestic pigeons to recent H5N1 viruses, we inoculated pigeons using H5N1 viruses isolated in China from 2002 to 2004. Within 21 days following inoculation, all pigeons had survived and fully recovered from temporary clinical signs. However, seroconversion assays demonstrated that several...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2008-12-30)

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