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Multidisciplinary Tracking of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Outbreak in Griffon Vultures, Southern Europe, 2022
Julien Hirschinger, Ursula Höfle, Alberto Sánchez-Cano, Claire Guinat, Guillaume Croville, Marta Barral, José Antonio Donázar, Chloé Le Gall Ladevèze, Mathilda Walch, Vega Alvarez, Xeider Gerrikagoitia, Louis Du Plessis, Simon Dellicour, Eneko Arrondo, José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata, Ainara Cortés-Avizanda, Sara Minayo Martín, Jérémy Tornos, Samuel Perret, Thierry Boulinier, Pascal Orabi, Anne Van De Wiele, Jean Luc Guerin, Olivier Duriez, and Guillaume Le Loc’h
Author affiliation: IHAP, ENVT, INRAE, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France (J. Hirschinger, C. Guinat, G. Croville, C. Le Gall Ladevèze, M. Walch, J.L. Guerin, G. Le Loc’h); Grupo SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, Ciudad Real, Spain (U. Höfle, A. Sánchez-Cano, S. Minayo Martín); NEIKER–Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain (M. Barral, V. Alvarez, X. Gerrikagoitia); Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain (J.A. Donázar, A. Cortés-Avizanda); ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland (L. Du Plessis); Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland (L. Du Plessis); Spatial Epidemiology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (S. Dellicour); Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (S. Dellicour); Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain (J.A. Sánchez-Zapata); Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France (J. Tornos, S. Perret, T. Boulinier, O. Duriez); Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux, Rochefort, France (P. Orabi); Office Français de la Biodiversité, Vincennes, France (A. Van De Wiele); Department of Zoology, University of Granada, Avenida de Fuentenueva S/N CP:18071 Granada, Spain (E. Arrondo)
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Figure 1. Sampling sites of live vultures (black triangles) and collection sites of carcasses of confirmed HPAI-positive vultures (dots) during March 2020–August 2023 in study of multidisciplinary tracking of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) outbreak in griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus), southern Europe, 2022. The correspondence between site identification and the details of site names, region, or province area are given in the Appendix. The color of collection sites indicates the number of cases in each site. A) Sampling sites in France and Spain; light green shaded areas show the breeding range of Griffon vultures. Insets provide details of specific sites: B) Alps, C) Massif Central, D) South Spain, and E) Pyrenees and North Spain.
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