Bird Flu Monitor > Mallard Ducks Found To Be Asymptomatic To Bird Flu Virus

Avian Flu Diaryhttp://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/03/mallard-ducks-found-to-be-asymptomatic.html [Avian Flu Diary] By experimentally infecting wild ducks, we found that tufted ducks, Eurasian pochards, and mallards excreted significantly more virus than common teals, Eurasian wigeons, and gadwalls; yet only tufted ducks and, to a lesser degree, pochards became ill or died.

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A1A Southhttp://swampie.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/dont-just-blame-the-chickens-for-the-flu/ [A1A South] Don’t Just Blame the Chickens for the Flu: Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam experimentally infected six wild-duck species with H5N1 to determine which were capable of excreting the virus without succumbing to the disease. Pochards and tufted ducks shed the .

Politics & Current Affairs[Politics & Current Affairs] World Events :: RE: Katrina Updates:New Orleans in crosshairs?: journey of avian flu, poultry populations are being tracked in Moscow; Alaskan scientists are studying birds migrating across the Bering Straits, and even the Swiss are looking over their shoulders at the tufted ducks and pochards .

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