Don't Just Blame the Chickens for Flu

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 03/24/2008 - 16:45

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Intensive rice farming and large duck populations - not the number of chickens raised - may be the best predictors of where bird flu might develop in Southeast Asia, according to researchers reviewing outbreaks in Vietnam and Thailand....

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