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Avian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 49 (17/12/2007)

Avian Influenza Disease Emergency

Year of publication 2007

Pages 15

Author Phil Harris;Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The avian influenza virus H5N1 could become entrenched in poultry, and domestic ducks and geese in parts of Europe, warns FAO. The agency stresses that healthy domestic ducks and geese may transmit the virus to poultry and play a more important role in the persistence of the virus in the region than previously thought. H5N1 surveillance in countries with significant domestic duck and geese populations should be urgently increased. FAO’s warning followed the detection of H5N1 in diseased young do mestic ducks by German scientists.

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