avian influenza
Research Topic
Language: English
This is a research topic created to provide authors with a place to attach new problem publications.
Research topics above this in the hierarchy
Research problems linked to this topic
- Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) have been implicated in all human influenza pandemics in recent history.
- Seasonal influenza places a major burden on public health.
- A novel avian influenza A(H7N9) virus causing human infection emerged in February 2013 in China.
- Seasonal influenza is a burden for emergency departments (ED).
- The H9N2 avian influenza virus is not only an important zoonotic pathogen, it can also easily recombine with other subtypes to generate novel reassortments, such as the H7N9 virus.
- Avian influenza virus (AIV) subtypes H5 and H7 are capable of mutating from low to high pathogenicity strains, causing high mortality in poultry with significant economic losses globally.
- The 2014-2015 H5Nx high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak affected 211 commercial premises, 21 backyard flocks, 75 individual wild birds and four captive-reared raptors in 21 Western and upper Midwestern states, resulting in death or culling of over 50.