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Avian influenza H5N1 in viverrids: implications for wildlife health and conservation

2006; Royal Society; Volume: 273; Issue: 1595 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.2006.3549

1471-2954

Scott Roberton, D. J. Bell, Gavin J. D. Smith, John Nicholls, K.H Chan, Dung T. Nguyen, Phuong Tran, Ulrike Streicher, Leo L. M. Poon, Honglin Chen, Peter Horby, M Guardo, Yi Guan, Malik Peiris,

Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

The Asian countries chronically infected with avian influenza A H5N1 are 'global hotspots' for biodiversity conservation in terms of species diversity, endemism and levels of threat. Since 2003, avian influenza A H5N1 viruses have naturally infected and killed a range of wild bird species, four felid species and a mustelid. Here, we report fatal disseminated H5N1 infection in a globally threatened viverrid, the Owston's civet, in Vietnam, highlighting the risk that avian influenza H5N1 poses to mammalian and avian biodiversity across its expanding geographic range.