Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008
Letter
Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) Mortality Surveillance
Nicholas Komar*
and Björn Olsen†
and Björn Olsen†Table
Bird species testing positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus subtype H5N1, Sweden and Denmark, 2006*
| Avian order and species |
Scientific name |
No. carcasses positive |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden |
Denmark |
||
| Podicepidiformes (great crested grebe) | Podiceps cristatus | 0 | 1 |
| Anseriformes | |||
| Mute swan | Cygnus olor | 2 | 4 |
| Whooper swan | Cygnus cygnus | 0 | 3 |
| Greylag goose | Anser anser | 0 | 1 |
| Goose spp | Anser spp. | 1 | 0 |
| Muscovy duck | Cairina moschata | 0 | 2 |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | 1 | 0 |
| Greater scaup | Aythya marila | 3 | 0 |
| Tufted duck | Aythya fuligula | 25 | 26 |
| Common merganser | Mergus merganser | 2 | 0 |
| Smew |
Mergus albellus |
1 |
0 |
| Falconiformes | |||
| Common buzzard | Buteo buteo | 1 | 6 |
| Rough-legged hawk | Buteo lagopus | 0 | 1 |
| Peregrine falcon |
Falco peregrinus |
0 |
1 |
| Galliformes | |||
| Common peafowl | Pavo cristatus | 0 | 1 |
| Domestic chicken |
Gallus gallus |
0 |
1 |
| Charadriiformes (herring gull) |
Larus argentatus |
1 |
0 |
| Strigiformes (eagle owl) |
Bubo bubo |
2 |
0 |
| Passeriformes (Eurasian magpie) |
Pica pica |
0 |
1 |
| All birds | 39 | 48 | |
