Dataset: Sero-surveillance for avian influenza exposure in wild birds in Iceland, 2012-2017
Dates
Publication Date
2024-04-30
Start Date
2012-05-12
End Date
2017-05-24
Citation
Dusek, R.J., Hall, J.S., Hallgrimsson, G.T., Vignisson, S.R., Ragnarsdottir, S.B., and Jónsson, J.E., 2024, Dataset: Sero-surveillance for avian influenza exposure in wild birds in Iceland, 2012-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P18JSXMH.
Summary
From 2010-2018 we investigated the occurrence of avian influenza antibody in wild birds in Iceland. A total of 2453 serum samples were collected from wild birds. We tested all samples by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for evidence of previous exposure to avian influenza virus with 1302 testing positive.
Summary
From 2010-2018 we investigated the occurrence of avian influenza antibody in wild birds in Iceland. A total of 2453 serum samples were collected from wild birds. We tested all samples by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for evidence of previous exposure to avian influenza virus with 1302 testing positive.
The data were collected to investigate the epidemiology 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 wintering in further into Europe and 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 antibody in the migratory birds sampled in Iceland by species, age class, season, or other variables reported and within the limitations of the sampling methods.
