Czech Republic

State Veterinary Institute Prague Sidlistni has released H5N8 sequences, A/turkey/Czech Republic/38-17_5/2017, (at GISAID) from a turkey at Ivančice-Němčice.

State Veterinary Institute Prague Sidlistni has released a full 217 Chicken H5N8 sequence, A/chicken/Czech Republic/206-17_2/2017, at GISAID.

State Veterinary Institute Prague Sidlistni has released a full 2017 H5N8 sequence, A/chicken/Czech Republic/206-17_2/2017, from a chicken from a backyard farm in Brod nad Dyjí. These sequences were most closely related to the full sequences from Croatia and France, but had a novel PB1 gene that was most closely related to 2015 H3N8 sequences from wild birds in Mongolia. Thus, the Czech Republic represents the fifth 2016/2017 H5N8 constellation that is distinct from the parental constellation identified in 2016 outbreaks at Qinghai Lake in China and Uvs Lake in Russia,

The Czech Republic has almost ten years vysocepatogenní confirmed occurrence of avian influenza (bird flu). The infection was confirmed in two poultry in backyards in the South Region, and in Moravsky Krumlov and Ivančice. A likely source of infection in breeding the wild birds. The infection was also confirmed in wild swans in the same region. http://eagri.cz/public/web/mze/tiskovy-servis/tiskove-zpravy/x2017_v-cr-bylo-po-temer-deseti-letech.html