Dataset: Surveillance for Avian Influenza Virus in Iceland, 2010 – 2018

Publication Date

2022-01-26

Start Date

2010-05-17

End Date

2018-02-12

Dusek, R.J., Hall, J.S., Hallgrimsson, G.T., Vignisson, S.R., Ragnarsdottir, S.B., and Jónsson, J.E., 2022, Dataset: Surveillance for Avian Influenza Virus in Iceland, 2010 – 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ODQJML.

Type: Related Primary Publication

The data were collected to investigate the presence of avian influenza viruses in Iceland bird species to better understand the role migratory birds have in the movement of avian influenza viruses between the North American continent and the European Continent. Iceland sits within the East Atlantic Migratory Bird Flyway with birds that use the flyway breeding in Greenland and Northern Canada and winter along the European Continent into Africa. In these breeding and wintering areas they have the opportunity to mix with avian species that use other flyways either to migrate south into North America in the winter or north into other parts of Europe or Asia in the summers making Iceland an appropriate middle ground to investigate this hypothesized virus movement in migratory birds. This data can be used to understand the prevalence of avian influenza virus in the migratory birds sampled in Iceland by species, age class, season, or other variables reported and within the limitations of the sampling methods. The genetic data from the avian influenza viruses can be used to compare among other avian influenza viruses globally to better understand the relationships among these viruses and how they spread geographically.

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