''Highly pathogenic avian #influenza (HPAI) #H5Nx viruses can cause neurological #complications in many mammalian #species, including #humans.
Neurological disease induced by #HPAI H5Nx viruses in mammals can manifest without clinical respiratory disease.
HPAI H5Nx viruses are more #neuropathogenic than other influenza A viruses in mammals.
Severe neurological disease in mammals is related to the neuroinvasive and neurotropic potential of HPAI H5Nx viruses.''

Szablewski CM, Iwamoto C, Olsen SJ, Greene CM, Duca LM, Davis CT, Coggeshall KC, Davis WW, Emukule GO, Gould PL, Fry AM, Wentworth DE, Dugan VG, Kile JC, Azziz-Baumgartner E
Reported #Global #Avian #Influenza Detections Among #Humans and #Animals During 2013-2022: Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Available #Surveillance Data - JMIR Public Health Surveill 2023;9:e46383, doi: 10.2196/46383, PMID: 37651182 https://publichealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e46383 #research #HPAI #LPAI #panzootic

Wales’ biggest Gannet colony suffers severe population crash - numbers on Grassholm have halved following HPAI

https://nation.cymru/news/wales-biggest-gannet-colony-suffers-severe-population-crash/

#Gannets #Seabirds #HPAI

''We suspect that direct #HPAI #transmission between #sealions could be occurring, rather than independent #spillovers into sea lions from #avian sources, but additional sequence data and analysis will be required to further characterise mammal-to-mammal transmission.''

World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) High Pathogenicity #Avian #Influenza (#HPAI) - Situation Report 47

▶️ Info submitted through World Animal Health Information System of WOAH

▶️ Covers 14 Jul - 24 Aug 2023

▶️ 38 new outbreaks reported in #poultry (in 8 countries/territories)

▶️ 152 outbreaks in non-poultry birds & animals (reported across 21 countries)

▶️ About 230,000 poultry birds died or culled worldwide during 6 week period

🔗: https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2023/09/hpai-situation-report-20230825.pdf

#H5N1 #birdflu #epidemiology

1/ “FAO Animal Production & Health / Report 20: Global consultation on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)”

▶️ FAO & Network of Expertise on Animal Influenza (OFFLU) brought together scientific community to review latest scientific evidence

▶️ Meeting held 02-04 May 2023, attended by over 200 participants in-person & online

▶️ Report summarises meeting discussions & key recommendations

Report 🔗: https://www.fao.org/3/cc7302en/cc7302en.pdf

#HPAI #H5N1 #influenza #epidemiology #EpiVerse #OneHealth #zoonotic

💻 Join our #webinar on an upcoming call for wild #bird surveillance!

Strengthen #HPAI readiness, build partnerships, and learn about tasks and application procedures. 🦢🦆

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#AvianInfluenza

Scottish wild bird highly pathogenic avian influenza response plan

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-wild-bird-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-response-plan/documents/

#HPAI #Seabirds #ScotGov

Finnish Food Agency to test all 400 fur farms in Finland for avian influenza. #H5N1 #HPAI

(Which was about time, I'd say.)

https://yle.fi/a/74-20045161

H/t Michael Coston, who did I think rely on a mistranslation by Google reporting on this!

#H5N1, #HPAI #EIDs, #Phylogenetic analysis, #Poultry, #Wildbirds

📢 Calling all interested stakeholders!

💻 Join our #webinars on upcoming & ongoing activities to increase preparedness for highly pathogenic #AvianInfluenza (#HPAI) in Europe and learn how to get involved 🚀

🗓️12/9/23

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1/ Three papers in latest #Eurosurveillance issue (03 Aug 2023) are on outbreaks of highly pathogenic #AvianInfluenza A(#H5N1) virus infection in animals. #HPAI

"Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection on multiple fur farms in the South & Central Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, July 2023"

▶️ First reported on 14 July, an outbreak of avian influenza among farmed foxes, minks & raccoon dogs

▶️ Up to 27 July, animals on 20 farms have been affected

🔗: https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.31.2300400

of interest #HPAI, the dead gulls found elsewhere on the reserve were almost entirely 1/2/3rd years rather than full adults.

So they wouldn't have been tolerated within the healthy colony, where lots of adults were agressively defending their chicks. And wherever the younger gulls caught HPAI, the adult gulls in the colony weren't going there themselves.

Why is this? Younger gulls use different freshwater ponds to the adults for cleaning? Are they using a different food source?

Oh, how confidence inspiring it is to hear the same people who have minimized #COVID19 risk since January 2020 are now in television minimizing #HPAI #avianinfluenza risk. Interpretation: the virus replicates in mammals and spreads via respiratory pathway, and these people wouldn't admit it even if the human pandemic had already started.

World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) High Pathogenicity #Avian #Influenza (#HPAI) - Situation Report 46

▶️ Info submitted through World Animal Health Information System of WOAH

▶️ Covers 23 Jun - 13 Jul 2023, with 5 outbreaks reported in #poultry & 100 in non-poultry birds

▶️ About 17,000 poultry birds died or culled worldwide during the 3-week period

▶️ Number of outbreaks in animals expected to have passed the peak & be declining

🔗: https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2023/07/hpai-situation-report-20230721.pdf

#H5N1 #birdflu #epidemiology

In the 27th week, Guangxi reported 1 case of human infection with H5N6 avian influenza.

The patient - a 64-y.o. male from Guilin - apparently raised poultry, fell ill on July 3rd, and remains hospitalized in serious condition.

#H5N6 #HPAI #H5N1 #BirdFlu
https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/07/hk-chp-monitoring-h5n6-case-on-mainland.html

Serious outbreak of bird flu in Finnmark

https://www.birdlife.no/organisasjonen/fylkesavdelinger/finnmark/nyheter/?id=3270

#HPAI #BirdFlu

Channel 4 news piece on #HPAI on Coquet Island

https://www.channel4.com/news/dead-and-dying-birds-wash-up-on-british-beaches-as-avian-flu-sweeps-europe

Bird flu wipes out Arctic Tern chicks at Long Nanny colony in Northumberland
#HPAI #Seabirds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/10/dead-arctic-tern-chicks-northumberland-long-nanny-bird-flu-suspected

Large wrecks of a few hundred dead auks reported on the Cumbrian Coast recently #HPAI #BirdFlu