Potential Arrival Pathway for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 to Oceania
Pablo Plaza, Andrea Santangeli, Tommaso Cancellario, Sergio Lambertucci · 2024
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Description
Plaza, Santangeli, Cancellario, and Lambertucci map in twenty twenty-four how a severe bird flu virus could first reach Oceania. The virus has caused the worst spread in animals ever recorded and has reached almost the whole world. Yet no cases had been found in Oceania when they wrote, which leaves time to prepare.
The team listed wild bird species known to have caught the virus elsewhere. They then mapped where those birds live. Oceania hosts few such species overall, so its broad risk looks low. But more than fifty of them live along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. That overlap marks the most likely entry path the authors urge planners to watch.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pablo Plaza, Andrea Santangeli, Tommaso Cancellario, Sergio Lambertucci |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |