MINNEAPOLIS — Reports of outbreaks in China involving five different highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza strains were filed with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) recently, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Two of the strains — H5N8 and H5N3 — have not been reported by China to the OIE before. Two outbreaks of the former were reported in September, each involving one bird (a duck and an unspecified bird) sampled during a national surveillance plan. One was at a slaughterhouse and the other in a wetland area; both were in Liaoning province. . .
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