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June 9, 2006
Bird Flu Blues: Wild Birds Contribute but Commercial Poultry Trade is Main Culprit
Link: Wild Birds Only Partly to Blame in Spreading H5N1
Science reports that the Rome FAO meeting of experts studying the H5N1 avian influenza epidemic reached a consensus: Wild birds play a role in the virus's huge geographic jumps, but the main means of transmission is the commercial poultry trade.
June 9, 2006 in Physical Science | Permalink
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