Tatyana Murashkina, Kirill Sharshov, Alimurad Gadzhiev, Guy Petherbridge, Anastasiya Derko, Ivan Sobolev, Nikita Dubovitskiy, Arina Loginova, Olga Kurskaya, Nikita Kasianov, Marsel Kabilov, Junki Mine, Yuko Uchida, Ryota Tsunekuni, Takehiko Saito, Alexander Alekseev, Alexander Shestopalov
The flyways of many different wild waterfowl pass through the Caspian Sea region. The western coast of the middle Caspian Sea is an area with many wetlands, where wintering grounds with large concentrations of birds are located. It is known that wild waterfowl are a natural reservoir of the influenza A virus. In the mid-2000s, in the north of this region, the mass deaths of swans, gulls, and pelicans from high pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV) were noted. At present, there is still little known about the presence of avian influenza virus (AIVs) and different avian paramyxoviruses (APMVs) in the region's waterfowl bird populations...
April 12, 2024: Viruses