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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2005;294:1331.

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Reports last month of outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in poultry in Russia and Kazakhstan indicate that the virus has expanded its geographic range, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Outbreaks of H5N1 infection were also reported in wild migratory birds in Mongolia and in poultry in Tibet (http://www.who.int/csr/don/2005_08_18/en/print.html).

Migratory birds are believed to be responsible for the spread of H5N1 viruses from southeast Asian countries, where outbreaks have resulted in the death or destruction of more than 150 million birds. Human cases, confirmed in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia, have been mostly linked to direct contact with diseased or dead poultry, although a few instances of human-to-human transmission have been recorded.

Veterinary workers attempt to curb the spread of avian influenza by giving lethal injections to ducks on a farm in Siberia. (Photo credit: AP/Wide World Photos)

The WHO noted that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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