Avian influenza virus surveillance in high arctic breeding Geese, Greenland

• Published in: Avian Diseases
• Main Authors: Gaidet, Nicolas, Leclercq, India, Batejat, Christophe, Grassin, Quentin, Daufresne, Tanguy, Manuguerra, Jean-Claude
• Other Authors: Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes (UMR ASTRE), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Cellule Pasteur, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Environnement et Risques infectieux - Environment and Infectious Risks (ERI), Institut Pasteur Paris (IP)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: migratory bird; arctic; water; feather; wildfowl; ice; environment; [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology; Arctic; Greenland; Anser brachyrhynchus; Branta leucopsis
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02620939; https://doi.org/10.1637/11793-010418-ResNote.1

International audience The connectedness in Arctic regions between migratory waterbird populations originating from different continents and the potential for virus exchange at their shared Arctic breeding ground point to the need to explore the largely unstudied circumpolar circulation of avian influenza viruses (AIV). We here report the investigation of AIV in wild birds and lakes in a high Arctic area of Northeast Greenland. No AIV could be detected in the fecal, feather, and water samples collected from large flocks of pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus and barnacle geese Branta leucopsis in and around refuge lakes, where they congregate at high density during their flightless molting period in summer.