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North Atlantic migratory bird flyways provide routes for intercontinental movement of avian influenza viruses.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Dusek Robert J, Hallgrimsson Gunnar T, Ip Hon S, Jónsson Jón E, Sreevatsan Srinand, Nashold Sean W, TeSlaa Joshua L, Enomoto Shinichiro, Halpin Rebecca A, Lin Xudong, Fedorova Nadia, Stockwell Timothy B, Dugan Vivien G, Wentworth David E, Hall Jeffrey S
Abstract excerpt
Avian influenza virus (AIV) in wild birds has been of increasing interest over the last decade due to the emergence of AIVs that cause significant disease and mortality in both poultry and humans. While research clearly demonstrates that AIVs can move across the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean, there has been no data to support the mechanism of how this occurs. In spring and autumn of 2010 and autumn of 2011 we...
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