ARCHIVED  October 17, 2006

CSU receives $2.6 million to study avian flu

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has received $2.6 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to study how interactions between humans and birds may spread avian flu.

The three-year study will focus on Western states, where H5N1 avian influenza has not yet been detected, and in central Indonesia, where the virus has been detected in both people and birds.

The first case of avian flu in humans was detected in Indonesia in July 2005.

Partners in the study will include the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Boulder.

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