TY - JOUR AU - Jourdain, Elsa AU - Gauthier-Clerc, Michel AU - Bicout, Dominique AU - Sabatier, Philippe T1 - Bird Migration Routes and Risk for Pathogen Dispersion into Western Mediterranean Wetlands T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 365 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Wild birds share with humans the capacity for moving fast over large distances. During migratory movements, birds carry pathogens that can be transmitted between species at breeding, wintering, and stopover places where numerous birds of various species are concentrated. We consider the area of the Camargue (southern France) as an example to highlight how ad hoc information already available on birds’ movements, abundance, and diversity can help assess the introduction and transmission risk for birdborne diseases in the western Mediterranean wetlands. Avian influenza and West Nile viruses are used as examples because birds are central to the epidemiology of these viruses. KW - birds KW - migration KW - disease transmission KW - avian influenza KW - West Nile virus KW - perspective KW - wetlands KW - Mediterranean KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1303.060301 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/3/06-0301_article ER - End of Reference