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JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages 1584-1594Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(15)61292-8
Keywords
avian influenza; domestic duck; market chain; network; poultry; telemetry
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- National Institutes of Health [1R01AI101028-01A1]
- Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition in the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development [GHA-G-00-06-00001]
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Agro-ecological conditions associated with the spread and persistence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) are not well understood, but the trade of live poultry is suspected to be a major pathway. Although market chains of live bird trade have been studied through indirect means including interviews and questionnaires, direct methods have not been used to identify movements of individual poultry. To bridge the knowledge gap on quantitative movement and transportation of poultry, we introduced a novel approach for applying telemetry to document domestic duck movements from source farms at Poyang Lake, China. We deployed recently developed transmitters that record Global Positioning System (GPS) locations and send them through the Groupe Special Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone system. For the first time, we were able to track individually marked ducks from 3 to 396 km from their origin to other farms, distribution facilities, or live bird markets. Our proof of concept test showed that the use of GPS-GSM transmitters may provide direct, quantitative information to document the movement of poultry and reveal their market chains. Our findings provide an initial indication of the complexity of source-market network connectivity and highlight the great potential for future telemetry studies in poultry network analyses.
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