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Volume 32, Number 12—December 2026

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Cryptic Invasion and Transmission Dynamics of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus, Europe, 2024–2026

Claire Guinat, Samia Guendouz, Olivier Kwiatek, Eva Connilhere, Antoni Exbrayat, Aikaterini Kirtzalidou, Maria Gianniou, Corina Ancuceanu, Mona Ghiță, Anna Zdravkova, Iliyan Kostov, Emilia Ivanova, Florica Bărbuceanu, Konstantia E. Tasioudi, Peter Malik, Adrienn Örkényi, Erga Shkodra, Armend Cana, Ivana Lojkić, Andreja Jungić, Antun Beljan, Marina Prišlin-Šimac, Dragan Brnić, Ljupka Maltar, Žaklin Acinger-Rogić, Martina Rubin, Ivana Lohman Janković, Michaela Stätter, Daniel Polzer, Susanne Koethe, and Arnaud BatailleComments to Author 
Author affiliation: University of Toulouse ENVT INRAE IHAP, Toulouse, France (C. Guinat); ASTRE University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France (S. Guendouz, O. Kwiatek, E. Connilhere, A. Exbrayat, A. Bataille); Directorate of Veterinary Center of Athens, Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Athens, Greece (A. Kirtzalidou, K.E. Tasioudi); Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Athens (M. Giannou); Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health, Bucharest, Romania (C. Ancuceanu, M. Ghiță, F. Barbuceanu); Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, Sofia, Bulgaria (A. Zdravkova); Republic of Bulgaria Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Sofia (I. Kostov); National Diagnostic and Research Veterinary Medical Institute, Sofia (E. Ivanova), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest (F. Bărbuceanu); National Food Chain Safety Office, Budapest, Hungary (P. Malik, A. Örkényi); Food Safety and Veterinary Institute, Tirana, Albania (E. Shkodra); Kosovo Food and Veterinary Laboratory, Pristina, Kosovo (A. Cana); Croatian Veterinary Institute, Zagreb, Croatia (I. Lojkić, A. Jungić, A. Beljan, M. Prišlin-Šimac, D. Brnić); Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Zagreb (L. Maltar, Ž. Acinger-Rogić, M. Rubin, I.L. Janković); Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Mödling, Austria (M. Stätter, D. Polzer, S. Koethe)

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Table

Characteristics of peste des petits ruminants virus samples after genomic sequencing in study of transmission dynamics of the virus, Europe, 2024–2026*

Country Locality Outbreak date Sample ID Sample type Host Coverage, % Mean depth GenBank accession no.
Albania Bulqize 2025 Jun 9 D4870 Nasal swab Goat 99.4 136 PZ271097
Diber 2025 Jun 9 D4867 Spleen Goat 99.2 151 PZ271098
Shkoder
 2025 Jun 4
 D4861
 Lung
 Goat
 98.3
 7
 PZ271096
Austria
 Horn
 2025 Feb 27
 842–48
 Nasal swab
 Sheep
 95.5
 6000
 PZ271138
Croatia
 Bogdanovici
 2025 Dec 13
 11
 Vaginal swab
 Sheep
 99.4
 11390
 PZ271099
Greece Aitoloakarnania 2024 Aug 22 2356 Blood Sheep 99.3 256 PZ271101
Aitoloakarnania 2024 Aug 22 2532 Nasal swab Sheep 99.4 369 PZ271100
Attiki 2024 Jul 29 612 Nasal swab Sheep 99.4 1121 PZ271102
Crete 2024 Aug 1 836 Lung Sheep 99.5 423 PZ271103
Karditsa 2024 Aug 2 862 Nasal swab Sheep 98.2 7.5 PZ271104
Korinthia 2024 Jul 27 376 Nasal swab Sheep 98.6 9.4 PZ271105
Korinthia 2024 Aug 5 838 Rectal swab Sheep 99.2 18.5 PZ271106
Larissa 2024 Jul 24 163 Lung Sheep 99.6 8759 PZ271107
Rodopi 2024 Sep 3 2458 Blood Sheep 84.1 4.5 PZ271108
Kalambaka
 2024 Jul 11
 72A
 Lung
 Sheep
 97.9
 18.8
 PZ271109
Hungary
 Zala
 2025 Jan 31
 6393
 Nasal swab + lung
 Sheep
 98.9
 13.1
 PZ271110
Kosovo Prizren 2025 Jul 2 205 Nasal swab Goat 99.3 2165 PZ271111
Prizren
 2025 Sep 26
 450
 Nasal swab
 Goat
 94.2
 7.9
 PZ271112
Romania Babadag 2024 Jul 22 34 Pool organs Sheep 90.0 4.1 PZ271114
Babadag 2024 Jul 23 128 Pool organs Sheep 98.5 1048 PZ271116
Babadag 2024 Jul 24 53 Pool organs Sheep 99.5 98 PZ271115
Babadag 2024 Jul 31 14 Pool organs Sheep 98.9 16.5 PZ271113
Baia 2024 Jul 31 15 Nasal swab Sheep 99.1 35 PZ271118
Baia 2024 Aug 10 3 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 18.9 PZ271117
Bihor 2025 Mar 5 203 Pool organs Sheep 99.0 24 PZ271119
Constanta 2024 Jul 23 1 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 93 PZ271120
Haidar 2024 Aug 2 11 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 28.3 PZ271121
Lalomita 2024 Aug 4 5 Nasal + ocular swab Sheep 99.2 20.2 PZ271122
Macin 2024 Jul 30 122 Pool organs Sheep 99.0 8.7 PZ271123
Stejaru 2024 Jul 26 77 Pool organs Sheep 99.5 190.8 PZ271127
Stejaru 2024 Jul 26 80 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 59.8 PZ271128
Stejaru 2024 Jul 26 81 Pool organs Sheep 95.5 6.5 PZ271129
Stejaru 2024 Jul 26 93 Pool organs Sheep 99.4 16953 PZ271130
Stejaru 2024 Jul 26 96 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 52 PZ271131
Stejaru 2024 Jul 26 98 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 264 PZ271132
Stejaru 2024 Aug 2 6 Nasal swab Sheep 98.2 8.6 PZ271126
Stejaru 2024 Aug 2 7 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 1563 PZ271125
Stejaru 2024 Aug 2 8 Nasal swab Sheep 99.3 151 PZ271124
Timis 2024 Jul 26 57 Pool organs Sheep 99.0 27276 PZ271133
Timis 2024 Aug 24 224 Ocular swab Sheep 98.9 1428 PZ271134
Timis 2024 Aug 30 357 Ocular swab Sheep 98.3 230.9 PZ271135
Timis 2024 Sep 2 612 Nasal swab Sheep 99.4 1121 PZ271136
Vulturu 2024 Aug 8 4 Nasal swab Sheep 99.4 10672 PZ271137

*Outbreak date is date of laboratory confirmation; mean depth, mean number of sequencing read per genome position in the reference PPRV genome used for the alignment. Pool organs indicates that multiple organs (lung, spleen, lymph nodes) were pooled. Data corresponding to the 4 sequences from Romania, Greece, and Bulgaria previously published (10) are not included.

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