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With ‘bird flu' regularly appearing in the headlines over recent years, the BOU could not ignore this important issue.

Avian Influenza and other bird diseases – conference summary

In 2006 the BOU ran an important scientific meeting on the subject.

• For details of the conference conclusions click here.
• For a press statement issued from the conference click here.

Recent expansion of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: a critical review

Gauthier-Clerc, M., Lebarbenchon, C. & Thomas, Ibis 149: 202-214.

DOI 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2007.00699.x

In 2007, the BOU published this important review paper in our international ornithological journal Ibis . The paper critically examined the arguments concerning the role of migratory birds in the global dispersal of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1. For further details click here .

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