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Sci Rep. 2013 Jul 12;3:2175. doi: 10.1038/srep02175.
Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India.
Pandit PS, Bunn DA, Pande SA, Aly SS.
Source
1] School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA 95616 [2] ELA foundation, C-9 Bhosale Park, Sahakar Nagar, Pune, India 411009.
Abstract
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 poultry communities will reduce the probability of outbreaks. Poultry communities that shared habitat with wild birds or those indistricts with previous outbreaks were more likely to suffer an outbreak. These results indicate that wild birds can introduce HPAI to domestic poultry and that limiting their contact at shared habitats together with swift culling of infected domestic poultry can greatly reduce the likelihood of HPAI outbreaks.
PMID:
23846233
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23846233
Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India.
Pandit PS, Bunn DA, Pande SA, Aly SS.
Source
1] School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA 95616 [2] ELA foundation, C-9 Bhosale Park, Sahakar Nagar, Pune, India 411009.
Abstract
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 poultry communities will reduce the probability of outbreaks. Poultry communities that shared habitat with wild birds or those indistricts with previous outbreaks were more likely to suffer an outbreak. These results indicate that wild birds can introduce HPAI to domestic poultry and that limiting their contact at shared habitats together with swift culling of infected domestic poultry can greatly reduce the likelihood of HPAI outbreaks.
PMID:
23846233
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23846233