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Bird flu is driven by ecologically diverse species, with wild ducks, gulls, geese, and poultry playing a role in global spread

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PLOS

A feeding frenzy of Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri).

image: A feeding frenzy of Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) during the mass migration via Cordova, Alaska – a key study site in the paper. view more 

Credit: Wendy Puryear, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL:  http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 

Article Title: Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: Funding for this project was provided by the NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (HHSN272201400008C (JR) & HHSN272201400006C (JH)) and the North Pacific Research Board (project no. 1411 (NH, MB, JR)). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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