yes, migratory routes, trade routes, illegal trade routes...you name it. It's everywhere...not just fowls, but mammals as well are dying from h5n1.
For one example of how bird flu got to the UK, do a google search on "Bernard Matthews".
Most of the birds that die are wild water fowl.
Low-Path Bird Flu (LPAI) can become HPAI. My understanding is that wild fowl do not die from LPAI, however, domestic poultry can.
Originally posted by Josekinuc
I have some questions I hoped could be answered about H5N1 bird flu. I know the strain originated in Asia. How does it make its way across all of Asia
into Europe? Supossedly the flu is carried by migratory flocks. Migrating bird travel north to south and vice versa depending on the season. They also
travel to the same winter and summer areas without taking a vacation to some distant island.
Then how do they spread the Bird flu to UK from Asia?
Through possibility of exotic tropical birds being imported to UK?
I wonder how the chicks from the USA developed the less concerned strain when arriving in the UK?
I hope the health organizations keep a good watch on this H5N1. It can kill more humans than all that have died in all the wars. It was devistating
during the last outbreak and now the world population is much greater than back then.
