Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2017)

Novel Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N8) Virus in Zoos, India

  • Shanmugasundaram Nagarajan,
  • Manoj Kumar,
  • Harshad V. Murugkar,
  • Sushil Tripathi,
  • Shweta Shukla,
  • Sonam Agarwal,
  • Garima Dubey,
  • Raunaq Singh Nagi,
  • Vijendra Pal Singh,
  • Chakradhar Tosh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2304.161886
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 4
pp. 717 – 719

Abstract

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) viruses were detected in waterfowl at 2 zoos in India in October 2016. Both viruses were different 7:1 reassortants of H5N8 viruses isolated in May 2016 from wild birds in the Russian Federation and China, suggesting virus spread during southward winter migration of birds.

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