12 May 2006 at 8:27 am
#4221
info from US based researcher and analyst:
In Thaliand, link shown between free-grazing domestic ducks and H5N1 distribution (more where free-grazing ducks present; however, with control measures, appeared H5N1 died out in duck flocks too).
http://www.cdc.gov/Ncidod/EID/vol12no02/05-0640.htm
Interesting, then, that China is using troops of ducks to devour locusts on grasslands in northwest [Xinjiang, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia].
Duck patrol advances on China’s locusts