Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza: entry pathways into North America via bird migration.

Given the possibility of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza arriving in North America and monitoring programs that have been established to detect and track it, we review intercontinental movements of birds. We divided 157 bird species showing regular intercontinental movements into four groups...

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Main Authors: A Townsend Peterson, Brett W Benz, Monica Papeş
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1803015?pdf=render