A threat from both sides: Multiple introductions of genetically distinct H5 HPAI viruses into Canada via both East Asia-Australasia/Pacific and Atlantic flyways

• Published in: Virus Evolution
• Main Authors: Alkie, Tamiru N, Lopes, Sara, Hisanaga, Tamiko, Xu, Wanhong, Suderman, Matthew, Koziuk, Janice, Fisher, Mathew, Redford, Tony, Lung, Oliver, Joseph, Tomy, Himsworth, Chelsea G, Brown, Ian H, Bowes, Victoria, Lewis, Nicola S, Berhane, Yohannes
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2022
• Subjects: Rapid Communication; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Newfoundland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9463990/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36105667; https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veac077

From 2016 to 2020, high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses circulated in Asia, Europe, and Africa, causing waves of infections and the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds and presenting a zoonotic risk. In late 2021, H5N1 HPAI viruses were isolated from poultry in Canada and a...