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In the first two months of 2006 H5N1 spread to other Asian countries (such as India), north Africa, and Europe in wild bird populations possibly signaling the beginning of H5N1 being endemic in wild migratory bird populations on multiple continents for decades, permanently changing the way poultry are farmed. [citation needed]
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on July 26, 2006, that a 17-year-old boy who died on July 24, 2006, in the Phichit province of northern Thailand had H5N1 avian influenza, marking the country's first case this year. H5N1 was recently detected in 31 dead chickens in Phichit province.
In December, a HPAI H5N1 subtype of clade 2.3.4.4b was found in a captive Asian black bear and in wild and captive birds in a wildlife park in France. [17] A human case of H5N1 was reported in the U.S. in April, "though this detection may have been the result of contamination of the nasal passages with the virus rather than actual infection."
Dairy industry experts say the virus entered California after local cows were shipped to another state and then returned to California.
Evolution from 1999 to 2002 created the Z genotype which became the dominant strain of highly pathogenic H5N1 in 2004. In January 2004 a major new outbreak of H5N1 surfaced in Vietnam and Thailand's poultry industry, and within weeks spread to ten countries and regions in Asia, including Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and China.
GENEVA (Reuters) -There is a risk that the H5N1 bird flu virus, present in many wild birds, may infect cows in countries beyond the United States as they migrate, a World Health Organization ...
Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak for a long time. Still, the virus is ...
The deaths, at a farm near the region's capital of Hohhot, were due to the H5N1 strain, the Xinhua news agency said. Locations of 2005 outbreaks in Croatia. October 26, 2005 Croatia announced H5N1 strain was found in dead swans. [14] [15] October 31, 2005 Russia confirmed previously suspected H5N1 bird flu in ten rural communities across Russia ...