Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2015)

Influenza A(H5N8) Virus Similar to Strain in Korea Causing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Germany

  • Timm Harder,
  • Sebastian Maurer-Stroh,
  • Anne Pohlmann,
  • Elke Starick,
  • Detlef Höreth-Böntgen,
  • Karin Albrecht,
  • Gunter Pannwitz,
  • Jens P. Teifke,
  • Vithiagaran Gunalan,
  • Raphael T.C. Lee,
  • Carola Sauter-Louis,
  • Timo Homeier,
  • Christoph Staubach,
  • Carola Wolf,
  • Günter Strebelow,
  • Dirk Höper,
  • Christian Grund,
  • Franz J. Conraths,
  • Thomas C. Mettenleiter,
  • Martin Beer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2105.141897
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 5
pp. 860 – 863

Abstract

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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.

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