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Influenza A(H5N8) Virus Similar to Strain in Korea Causing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Germany |
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| Authors: | Timm Harder Sebastian Maurer-Stroh Anne Pohlmann Elke Starick Detlef H?reth-B?ntgen Karin Albrecht Gunter Pannwitz Jens Teifke Vithiagaran Gunalan Raphael T.C. Lee Carola Sauter-Louis Timo Homeier Christoph Staubach Carola Wolf Günter Strebelow Dirk H?per Christian Grund Franz J. Conraths Thomas C. Mettenleiter Martin Beer |
| Abstract: | Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) virus, like the recently described H5N8 strain from Korea, was detected in November 2014 in farmed turkeys and in a healthy common teal (Anas crecca) in northeastern Germany. Infected wild birds possibly introduced this virus. |
| Keywords: | influenza A virus H5N8 subtype highly pathogenic poultry wild birds zoonoses viruses influenza Germany |