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SUBMITTER: Pandit PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3807259 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pandit Pranav S PS Bunn David A DA Pande Satish A SA Aly Sharif S SS
Scientific reports 20130101
Wild birds are suspected to have played a role in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreaks in West Bengal. Cluster analysis showed that H5N1 was introduced in West Bengal at least 3 times between 2008 and 2010. We simulated the introduction of H5N1 by wild birds and their contact with poultry through a stochastic continuous-time mathematical model. Results showed that reducing contact between wild birds and domestic poultry, and increasing the culling rate of infected domestic pou ...[more]