bird flu

ILRI News on bird flu

Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit). In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural transformation: Animal health ), Delia Grace , a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

Scottish gene-edited chickens produced to help stop bird flu

Gallo, 1977, by Aldemir Martins (via Wikiart). ‘Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do happen. In fact, scientists are so concerned that the next great pandemic will arise from a deadly strain of wild bird influenza that they’ve...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

Publications on bird flu

Journal Article

Published2020

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) landscape suitability varies by wetland habitats and the degree of interface between wild waterfowl and poultry in India

Published2020

Avian influenza virus surveillance in live bird markets, northern Vietnam

Journal Article

Published2019

Bioaerosol sampling to detect avian influenza virus in Hanoi’s largest live poultry market

Journal Article

Published2018

Estimating the between-farm transmission rates for highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N1 epidemics in Bangladesh between 2007 and 2013

Journal Article

Published2016

Sensitivity and specificity estimation for the clinical diagnosis of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Egyptian participatory disease surveillance program

Journal Article

Published2014

Issues and strategies in ex-post evaluation of intervention against animal disease outbreaks and spread