Python the language and python the reptile, together at last in this veterinary epidemiology publication on the demographics of smallholder domestic poultry farms in #SEAsia. There is substantial overlap of flocks, species, and ages: they are not run as all-in-all-out-systems. 1/
For those interested in #mathematicalmodeling of #avianinfluenza, including circulation of #H5N1 in poultry flocks, diagram below gives you the birth, death, purchase, sale parameters you need. Paper is here: 2/ rdcu.be/bG8xx
Thanks to a great field team – Thanh, Xuyen, Co Tuyet, Lam, and the Ca Mau sub-Department of Animal Health, and thanks to Alexis Delabouglise and Benjamin Nguyen-Van-Yen for assembling and analyzing 1087 poultry flocks (cohorts). @PennStateBio @ciddpsu @OUCRU_Vietnam 3/
Just a short note in Sep 2023, following up on this thread as we unroll and archive, that our epi / global health community has great interest in #H5N1 influenza when it is circulating in wild birds above our heads, but we have failed to re-focus or computational epi tools … 4/
.. on the endemic #avianinfluenza circulation in East Asia, the millions of smallholder farms and thousands of local/roadside markets where it makes contact with humans, and the basic farm-level microeconomic questions that need to be addressed to start making progress here. 5/
@threadreaderapp unroll please