ECDC on air.

The podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.

Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast for the European

Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

I'm your host Lee, recording from my headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Today, we are joined again by Connie Adeloch, principal expert in coronaviruses and influenza

here at ECE. We will be discussing the current avian influenza outbreak and the newly published

report on it, written jointly with EFSA, the European Foodian influenza outbreak and the newly published report on it, written jointly

with EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority and the European Union Reference Laboratories.

We will be discussing how this outbreak has spread, what makes it unique, and what we can do to protect ourselves. So today we are joined by Connie Adelhoch, principal expert for coronavirus and influenza here at ECDC.

Connie, thanks for joining us.

Thank you very much for having me.

ECDC, along with the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, and the European Union Reference

Laboratories, EURL, have put together an overview of the current avian influenza outbreak

that is ongoing.

What is new or particular about this current outbreak?

Is it just one strain or is it similar to the flu in people where we see different strains?

So what we have been seeing over the last three years, we have ongoing avian influenza outbreaks in wild birds, but also

then spillovers to poultry. And what we have seen over the last years is an expansion

of the geographical area that has been affected and where detections have been made in Europe,

up to Swarbirds, to Iceland, for example. But what we have also seen last year, that

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