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(Message started by: HKBWS Project on Aug 1^st, 2006, 11:48am)

Title: Int'l Sci. Conf. on AI & wild birds °ê»Ú¸V¬y·P»P³¥³¾¬ì¬ã·|Ä³
Post by HKBWS Project on Aug 1^st, 2006, 11:48am

For members' information

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the final recommendations and conclusions of the International Scientific Conference on Avian Influenza and Wild Birds, held in Rome on the 30th and 31 May 2006.

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/Avian%20Influenza/RecommandationsWildBirds.pdf

FAO informs that us that this document will be posted at the Avian Influenza website in due course:
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/health/diseases-cards/special_avian.html

Dr. Taej Mundkur
Wetlands International - South Asia

Title: Re: International Scientific Conf. on AI & wild bi
Post by HF_Cheung on Aug 14^th, 2006, 8:52pm

Here is some Avian Fly test on wild brids that I read from the following webpage.

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/OC/fact/Avian%20Influenza-Aug06%20Revision.pdf

"In 2006, none of the 39,143 wild birds of 150 species sampled in Europe were found to be infected. Of the 6,500 live birds (of 55 species) found on a lake in Mongolia where a mass mortality event killed 100 birds, none tested positive for the virus."

It is surprising to me that even tests of this magnitude cannot review the virus in wild birds. There seems to be something wrong, something does not match up. In HK, future Avian Flu tests should be focussed on dead birds.

HF Cheung