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Study Finds Key Factors Behind Bird Flu Outbreaks
March 26, 2008
By Will Dunham
Ducks, people and rice paddies are the primary forces driving outbreaks of avian influenza in Thailand and Vietnam, and the number of chickens is less pivotal, scientists said.
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization experts and others looked at three waves of H5N1 bird flu in Thailand and Vietnam in 2004 and 2005. The virus has killed 236 people in 12 countries since 2003.
They used computer modeling to study how various factors were involved in the spread of the virus, including the numbers of ducks, geese and chickens, human population size, rice cultivation and local geography.
© 2008 Reuters
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 28 March 2008
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