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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018

Dispatch

Novel Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N6) Virus in the Netherlands, December 2017

Nancy BeerensComments to Author , Guus Koch, Rene Heutink, Frank Harders, D.P. Edwin Vries, Cynthia Ho, Alex Bossers, and Armin Elbers
Author affiliations: Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Lelystad, the Netherlands (N. Beerens, G. Koch, R. Heutink, F. Harders, C. Ho, A. Bossers, A. Elbers); Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Utrecht, the Netherlands (D.P.E. Vries)

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Figure 1

Daily mortality rate (% of ducks) in ≈8,000 ducks in barn 1 of the case flock during outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N6) in the Netherlands, 2017. The farmer counted the dead ducks every morning. During clinical inspection on the last day, an additional number of dead ducks was counted (12 h after the farmer’s morning count); the asterisk (*) indicates the total number of dead ducks at the end of the day on December 7 (farmer count + clinical inspection count).

Figure 1. Daily mortality rate (% of ducks) in ≈8,000 ducks in barn 1 of the case flock during outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N6) in the Netherlands, 2017. The farmer counted the dead ducks every morning. During clinical inspection on the last day, an additional number of dead ducks was counted (12 h after the farmer’s morning count); the asterisk (*) indicates the total number of dead ducks at the end of the day on December 7 (farmer count + clinical inspection count).

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