Avian Influenza A Virus (H7N7) Epidemic in The Netherlands in 2003: Course of the Epidemic and Effectiveness of Control Measures

Stegeman, Arjan; Bouma, A.; Elbers, A.R.W.; de Jong, M.C.M.; Nodelijk, G.; de Klerk, Fred; Koch, Guus; van Boven, Michiel

doi:10.1086/425583

Public

Avian Influenza A Virus (H7N7) Epidemic in The Netherlands in 2003: Course of the Epidemic and Effectiveness of Control Measures

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases • Dec 10, 2004

Authors:

Arjan Stegeman

A. Bouma

A.R.W. Elbers

Abstract

An epidemic of high-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) A virus subtype H7N7 occurred in The Netherlands in 2003 that affected 255 flocks and led to the culling of 30 million birds. To evaluate the effectiveness of the control measures, we quantified between-flock transmission characteristics of th...

Subject

Flock

Culling

Outbreak

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!