Ducks and rice play key role in avian influenza outbreaks News / Information Releases from other Sources Posted by JimEdwards on Mar 26, 2008 - 03:57 PM New scientific findings published Source: [1]Ducks, people and rice paddies – rather than chickens – are the major factors behind outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Thailand and Viet Nam, and are probably behind outbreak persistence in other countries of the region such as Cambodia and Lao PDR. In "Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia: ducks, rice and people", just published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS), a group of experts from FAO and associated research centres looked at the series of waves of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Thailand and Viet Nam between early 2004 and late 2005. Read more [2] ... This article is from World Veterinary Association   http://www.worldvet.org/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.worldvet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4109 Links in this article   [1] http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000817/index.html   [2] http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000817/index.html