Influenza A(H5N8) virus similar to strain in Korea causing highly pathogenic avian influenza in Germany

• Main Authors: Harder, Timm, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Pohlmann, Anne, Starick, Elke, Höreth-Böntgen, Detlef, Albrecht, Karin, Pannwitz, Gunter, Teifke, Jens, Gunalan, Vithiagaran, Lee, Raphael T.C., Sauter-Louis, Carola, Homeier, Timo, Staubach, Christoph, Wolf, Carola, Strebelow, Günter, Höper, Dirk, Grund, Christian, Conraths, Franz J., Mettenleiter, Thomas C., Beer, Martin
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology::Bacteria
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107267; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25617
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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.