Netherlands

Wageningen Bioveterinary Research has released full December 2017 domestic duck sequences from Flevoland Netherlands.

Wageningen Bioveterinary Research has released full December 2017 H5N6 sequences from wild birds in Gelderland, Netherlands.

Erasmus Medical Center has released full H5N6 sequences from December, 2017 collections from wild birds in The Netherlands.

H5N6 from December 2017 collections from Great Black-back gulls in the Netherlands match recent H5N6 isolates from Japan and Taiwan.

EMC has released H5 and N8 sequences (at GISAID) A/Eurasian wigeon/Netherlands/1/2016, related to the Croatian lineage represented by the sequence from Kalmykia..

Netherlands has reported a HPAI H5N5 infection in a Tufted Duck near Werkendam. This infection is likely an H5N8 reassortant, since H5N8 in tufted ducks in Europe is common, and 4 tufted ducks infected with clade 2.3.4. H5N8 were reported earlier at the same location. http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/temp/reports/en_imm_0000021909_20161215_141527.pdf

Thursday night is another duck now cleared in Biddinghuizen, due to the highly contagious bird flu Influenza A virus subtype H5N8. This is now the third company where the virus has been identified and the fourth company is culled. http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/artikel/10872520/van-dam-extra-maatregelen-om-vogelgriep-te-beheersen

219575 Confirmed Europe/Netherlands/Biddinghuizen National Flevoland / Lat.: 52.44, Long.: 5.67 25/11/2016 26/11/2016 Influenza - Avian H5N8 HPAI 13675 500 13675 domestic, duck Geocoords. Quality: Unknown http://empres-i.fao.org/eipws3g/