Ecology of low pathogenicity avian influenza virus H7 in wild birds in south-eastern Australia prior to emergence of high pathogenicity avian influenza H7 in poultry
Wille, M.; Eden, P.; Ban de Gouvea Pedroso, S.; Barr, I. G.; Crawley, A.; Driver, K.; Jimenez, V.; Kirkland, P. D.; Mee, P. T.; Neave, M. J.; ORiley, K.; Read, A. J.; Stevens, V.; Visentin, T.; Breed, A. C.; Klaassen, M.
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Adding to the global burden of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, an unprecedented five HPAI H7 outbreaks occurred globally in 2024. Of these, three occurred in southeast Australia, with the independent emergence of HPAI H7N9, H7N8, and H7N3, resulting in the destruction of 2 million poultry. Historical data demonstrates that H7 outbreaks in Australia do not occur randomly, rather, there is a strong association between the timing of the previous H7 outbreaks and rainfall patterns in southeastern Australia. We aimed to address a hypothesis wherein prior to H7 outbreaks in poultry, there was a detectable change in H7 prevalence and/or virus diversity in wild bird populations. We addressed this using virological and serological surveillance data generated from multiple programs. Despite the collection of thousands of samples, there was only weak evidence to support our hypothesis, which provides strong incentive to evaluate current surveillance approaches for the purposes of risk prediction. However, in alignment with a previous analysis, there is strong support for a relationship between H7 outbreak probability and rainfall patterns across southeast Australia. Overall, improved understanding of the ecology and evolution of H5 and H7 viruses in wild bird reservoirs is pivotal to global disease preparedness and response.
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