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bird flu outbreak | 19 November 2021 |
| My colleagues from Scotland report on a massive outbreak of bird flue among wintering barnacle geese in Scotland. Hundreds of birds, with estimates of more than a thousand are reported dead on the coasts of the Solway Firth. This is the wintering ground of the Svalbard breeding barnacle geese, my study population. It started with this article. | |
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Read the news here. | |
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Above is a news item of ITV, about the outbreak, with pictures of a lot of snow on the meadows of the Solway Firth.This is unusual. | |
| To the right is a video made by Richard and Jackie Everitt on a sick goose. | |
Last summer, we have sampled 100 barnacle geese during our moult catches in Ny-Ålesund. None of them tested positive for avian influenza. The request came from the Knut Madslien of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. In the winter of 2020-2021, there had been an outbreak in the Russian/Dutch wintering barnacle geese and some infected geese were found in southern Norway. It will be very interesting to sample again next summer. | |
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18 December 2021 The story continues... 
Full paper here | |
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