"Avian flu on the wing: are wild birds to blame?"

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"The bird flu H5N1 virus is spreading fast, and the general view presented in the media is that migratory birds are to blame.

"Yet, writes Dennis Normile in Science, bird experts have been almost unanimously sceptical about this theory. They argue that sick or dying birds cannot fly very far, and that even if they were carrying the virus, H5N1 should already have arrived in places where it has not."