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Science 9 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5779, p. 1451
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5779.1451
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AVIAN INFLUENZA:
Wild Birds Only Partly to Blame in Spreading H5N1

Dennis Normile

Last week, after poring over the latest surveillance data, a group meeting in Rome reached a consensus: Wild birds play a role in the avian influenza virus's huge geographic jumps, they said in a statement at the end of the meeting, but the main means of transmission is the commercial poultry trade. (Read more.)

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Risk-based surveillance for H5N1 avian influenza virus in wild birds in Great Britain.
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Vet Rec. 161, 775-781
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Genomic Analysis and Geographic Visualization of the Spread of Avian Influenza (H5N1).
D. Janies, A. W. Hill, R. Guralnick, F. Habib, E. Waltari, and W. C. Wheeler (2007)
Syst Biol 56, 321-329
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