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Article: THAILAND: POULTRY, NOT WILD BIRDS, SPREAD FLU, EXPERTS SAY
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- September 6, 2007
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Marwaan Macan-Markar
Inter Press Service English News Wire
09-06-2007
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep. 3, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- No clear evidence
exists to link wild birds to the cases of avian influenza that have
infected poultry populations throughout the world. Indeed, some
studies have shown that wild birds are more likely to catch the flu
from poultry farms than the other way around.
Nevertheless, the public remains suspicious of wild birds in
part because negative test results -- in this case, tests that show
that wild birds are healthy, rather than ill -- are less likely to
be published than positive test results.
"Science by its nature is about discovery, about finding
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