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Article: Duck migration and past influenza A (H5N1) outbreak areas.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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To the Editor: In 2005 and 2006, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus subtype H5N1 rapidly spread from Asia through Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Waterbirds are considered the natural reservoir of low pathogenic avian influenza viruses (1), but their potential role in the spread of HPAI (H5N1), along with legal and illegal poultry and wildlife trade (2), is yet to be clarified.
The garganey (Anas querquedula) is the most numerous duck migrating between Eurasia and Africa: [approximately equal to] 2 million gather in the wetlands of Western Africa every northern winter (3). We report on a spatial correlation between the 2007 migration path of a garganey ...
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