One Flew East, One Flew West…

A. K. Yurlov

Birds and viruses have always coexisted. The problem of “avian influenza,” recently exhibited before the public in a rather terrifying form, with a certain assistance of mass media, has been known to the experts for a long time. As early as in the 1970s–1980s, the examination of migratory birds with respect to their infection was part of a large-scale research into their migratory behavior and migratory flyways.

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