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Satellite Data Reveals Why Migrating Birds Have a Small Window to Spread Bird Flu

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:35 -0700

In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 ‘bird flu’ virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears were never realised, and now new research reveals why the global spread of bird flu by direct migration of wildfowl is unlikely, while also providing a new framework for quantifying the risk of ...


Satellite data reveal why migrating birds have a small window to spread bird flu

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:17:34 -0700

( Wiley-Blackwell ) In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 "bird flu" virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears were never realized, and now research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology reveals why the global spread of bird flu by direct migration of ...


Bird flu: Experts to shift focus

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:43:38 -0700

Reuters. HANOI. Mid-size traders and farms that sell poultry to small farmers could act as avian flu transmission hubs and there needs to be better biosecurity at that level, a top United Nations expert said yesterday.



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