More than one million live birds, mostly poultry, were imported in that span.
In Istanbul, with a population of 10m, three neighbourhoods with infected poultry were put in quarantine.
They said the United States should probably be spending more in Africa, where infected poultry were recently found.
More than 400 injuries relating to the the farming of poultry were reported during the same period, including 106 major incidents.
Reilly said an estimated two million animals, mostly poultry, were killed in the UK each year without stunning for the orthodox Jewish community.
Downing was dismayed by what he saw as the general slovenliness of rural America, where pigs and poultry were allowed to roam free, "bare and bald" houses were thrown up, and trees were planted haphazardly, if at all.
"They were... huge!" He laughed at the memory, and then added that the turkey-gift idea had come to him when he was still very much the enfant terrible — outrageous gifts of poultry were, evidently, part of the job.
Goats and poultry were also stall-fed.
Primers specific to ruminant and poultry were designed for species-specific gene-amplification.
Almost 31 million poultry were culled in the Netherlands last year before the virus, a strain called H7N7, was contained.
Gene products of ruminant and poultry were represented in two melting peaks generated simultaneously at temperatures of 83.2 and 86.5 °C, respectively.
