Avian Influenza Technical Articles
Article published the June 9, 2017:
Introduction
In June 2012, a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, subtype H7N3, was identified as the cause of a severe disease outbreak in commercial layer farms in the Western State of Jalisco. ...
Article published the March 3, 2017:
Q: What are the essential measures to prevent avian influenza?
A: For most farming situations, the best way is to improve biosecurity on the farm, so that it is practiced every day. Make it a consistent ha...
Article published the February 24, 2017:
Background
Avian Influenza (AI) virus belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family, Influenzavirus A genus. This virus possesses eight segments of single-stranded RNA genome. Two of these segments encode for...
Article published the February 17, 2017:
1. Introduction
Since 1990's, there has been a significant increase in the number of highly pathogenic (HP) avian influenza (AI) outbreaks and also in the number of birds involved in those outbreaks [1,2]. The...
Article published the November 18, 2016:
Introduction
The avian influenza virus (AIV) H9N2 subtype was first characterized in 1966 as causing mild respiratory diseases in turkeys (Homme and Easterday, 1970) and, for the first decade after its...
Article published the November 11, 2016:
The genus influenza belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family, representing viruses that have a single-strand, negative sense, and segmented RNA genome. RNA virus replication is characterized b...
Article published the October 14, 2016:
The A (H1N1) pdm09 influenza pandemic and, most recently, the A(H3N2) variant outbreak in several areas of the USA are examples of swine influenza viruses infecting humans. These cases highlight the need for re...
Article published the February 22, 2016:
On 27 July 2015, Germany’s veterinary authorities notified the European Commission via an ADNS and OIE announcement that a highly pathogenic avian influenza H7N7 had broken out in a poultry flock of 14,10...
Article published the June 25, 2015:
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI serotype H5N2) appear to be slowing. Higher seasonal temperatures are helping, along with growth of vegetation – corn and soybeans ...
Article published the March 25, 2015:
With the recent detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (AI) in commercial turkey flocks in several states, this newsletter is being provided to answer questions regarding this disease. Since Decemb...