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Paper by the group of Prof. Dr. Jeroen Dewulf on the risk for different mammals to be infected by HPAI

5 Dec 2024

Susceptibility of Mammals to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: A Qualitative Risk Assessment From the Belgian Perspective

The world experienced a huge number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in birds, which could represent one of the largest registered epidemics of infectious disease in food-producing animals. Therefore, mammals, including humans, are continuously exposed to HPAI viruses leading to sporadic and sometimes unusual mammal infections. The aim of this paper is to assess the risk of crossing the avian/mammalian species barrier by the currently circulating HPAI viruses, focusing on the epidemiological situation of Belgium, a representative country for Western Europe.


Special 🙏 to provaxs member Prof. Dr. Jeroen Dewulf


🌐Read the full text on https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zph.13194

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