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Avian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 40 (19/06/2006)

Update of the Avian Influenza situation

Year of publication 2006

Pages 14

Author V.Martin; A.Kamata ;Animal Production and Health Division

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Synopsis (short abstract) Should wild birds now be considered a permanent reservoir of the virus? The animal species playing a role in the transmission, spread or introduction of the highly pathogenic avian influenza ( HPAI) H5N1 virus are essentially domestic and wild birds. Although some fifty non- domestic bird species have proved susceptible to infection from the virus, it would appear from the epidemiological data currently available that, among the wild birds implicated in the transboundary introduction of the viru s, aquatic birds play a major role.

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