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{Excerpt} Dear Editor, The highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) are important epizootic and zoonotic pathogens that cause significant economic losses to the poultry industry and pose a serious risk to veterinary and public health . Wild birds have been recognized as the primary reservoirs for influenza A virus, and some species show little sign of clinical disease or even can be asymptomatic during long distance carriers of the virus (Lycett et al., 2019). Since it was first discovered in 1959, the H5Nx HPAIVs have spread globally and cause outbreaks in wild birds, poultry and sporadic human and other mammalian infections (Lycett et al., 2019). Due to the reassortant events of diverse strains facilitated by migratory waterfowl, the clade 2.3.4.4 of H5Nx viruses acquiring neuraminidase (NA) gene from other low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (LPAIVs) emerged in 2014 and gradually became the dominant sub-clade (Lee et al., 2017). The genetic diversity of clade 2.3.4.4...

Abstract Influenza is a major infectious disease challenge affecting animal and human health globally, and wild birds are historically the primary reservoirs of all the known Influenza A virus subtypes. Here, we detected the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus in exotic and aquatic birds in three different locations in Nigeria. On the 8th of February 2021, exotic birds: Yellow Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), Sultan chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), Lakenvelder chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), and Common pheasant (Phasianus calchicus), imported from Libya and transported across the Niger Republic border to Nigeria, were presented to the National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, for screening. Also, a family in Lagos State bought some exotic aquatic birds from a live bird market in Sokoto State , Nigeria, where sudden death was recorded with the birds showing few clinical signs. Similarly, the sudden death of some aquatic birds was reported in Mandela Parks and ...