Jorind Beqari

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus is a major pandemic threat, causing widespread outbreaks among birds and decimating poultry populations, affecting the ecology at a global scale. The first report of this HPAI H5N1 virus was from a goose farm in Guangdong, China in the year 1996 (Xu et al., 1999). The internal genes of these viruses showed low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) virus-origins indicating extensive reassortments (Xu et al., 1999).

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