Allison Murawski, Thomas Fabrizio, Robert Ossiboff, Christina Kackos, Trushar Jeevan, Jeremy C Jones, Ahmed Kandeil, David Walker, Jasmine C M Turner, Christopher Patton, Elena A Govorkova, Helena Hauck, Suzanna Mickey, Brittany Barbeau, Y Reddy Bommineni, Mia Torchetti, Kristina Lantz, Lisa Kercher, Andrew B Allison, Peter Vogel, Michael Walsh, Richard J Webby
Since late 2021, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of A/goose/Guangdong/1/1996 (H5N1) lineage have caused widespread mortality in wild birds and poultry in the United States. Concomitant with the spread of HPAI viruses in birds are increasing numbers of mammalian infections, including wild and captive mesocarnivores and carnivores with central nervous system involvement. Here we report HPAI, A(H5N1) of clade 2.3.4.4b, in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from Florida, United States...
April 18, 2024: Communications Biology