Improving Risk Models for Avian Influenza: The Role of Intensive Poultry Farming and Flooded Land during the 2004 Thailand Epidemic

• Thomas P. Van Boeckel ,

  * E-mail: thomas.van.boeckel@gmail.com

  Affiliations Biological Control and Spatial Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels, Belgium

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• Weerapong Thanapongtharm,

  Affiliation Department of Livestock Development, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Timothy Robinson,

  Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

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• Chandrashekhar M. Biradar,

  Affiliation Center for Spatial Analysis, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Xiangming Xiao,

  Affiliation Center for Spatial Analysis, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Marius Gilbert

  Affiliations Biological Control and Spatial Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels, Belgium

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