#usutu-virus — Public Fediverse posts
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Any gardeners who see blackbirds told ‘please help now’ as virus hits | Nature | News https://www.allforgardening.com/1343003/any-gardeners-who-see-blackbirds-told-please-help-now-as-virus-hits-nature-news/ #BlackbirdDecline #BritishTrustForOrnithology(BTO)Survey #ClimateChange #environment #garden #Garden(section) #gardener #gardening #UsutuVirus
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Robins and sparrows will thrive in your garden if 4 foods are left on bird feeders https://www.allforgardening.com/1325417/robins-and-sparrows-will-thrive-in-your-garden-if-4-foods-are-left-on-bird-feeders/ #blackbirds #garden #gardening #HowToFeedBirdsInWinter #magpies #ROBINS #RSPB #Sparrows #UsutuVirus #WinterBirdFeeding
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Hacía meses que no salía de pajareo en Alemania, y realmente parece que la epidemia de virus Usutu ha pegado fuerte. No he visto ni un solo mirlo, una especie normalmente omnipresente :(
#pajareo #berlin #UsutuVirus #birdwatching -
#Usutu virus African 3.1 #lineage, #Portugal, 2021-2023
Source: BioRxIV, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626753v1?rss=1
Abstract
Background: Usutu virus (Orthoflavivirus usutuense, USUV), a neurotropic arthropod-borne RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae, is a zoonotic virus that has spread throughout the European continent over the last three decades, since its emergence in Italy in 1996. However, no cases of USUV have been reported in Portugal so far.
Material and methods: In the scope of an active surveillance program for Orthoflavivirus, we collected growing feather samples from 249 red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa) hunted in southern Portugal during the 2021-2023 hunting seasons. Samples positive for USUV were subjected to whole genome sequencing and strain characterization.
Results: Two partridges tested positive for USUV. Phylogenetic analyses of whole and partial genomes assigned the USUV strains to the African 3 lineage, specifically the African 3.1 sub-lineage.
Conclusions: Our study confirms, for the first time, the circulation of USUV in wild birds in Portugal. Active surveillance of hunted partridges proved to be a useful, accessible, and cost-effective method for USUV monitoring, further supporting their value as effective sentinels for Orthoflavivirus surveillance. Given the ongoing circulation of USUV and the increasing risk of its spillover to other domestic and wild animals, and humans, additional efforts are needed to improve virus surveillance in Portugal from a One Health perspective.
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#abstract #ARBOVIRUS #FLAVIVIRUS #PORTUGAL #research #USUTUVIRUS #WILDBIRDS
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Seit Monaten breitet sich das Usutu-Virus auf Amseln im Kreis Borken aus. Die Lage sei so schlimm wie noch nie.#Regio-Beitrag #Münsterland #Amseln #Amselsterben #Usutu-Virus #KreisBorken #16102024
Usutu-Virus befällt Amseln: Fast 90 Prozent der Amseln in Borken tot -
Nog meer mensen die de merel missen in hun tuin?
Geen merel meer te zien hier, al een aantal weken. Vermoedelijk geveld door het Usutuvirus dat overgebracht wordt door muggen. 😢
De struiken hangen vol bessen waar ze vorig jaar nog op af kwamen. Elke dag zag ik ze in de tuin woelend tussen blad en takjes op zoek naar wormen en insecten.Het gaat rond in Brabant, Gelderland, Limburg en België:
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the BTO are also collecting data about blackbirds and the Usutu Virus, a mosquito-borne disease that may be decimating our garden friends
https://www.bto.org/about-bto/press-releases/much-loved-songbird-threatened-mosquito-borne-virus
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🐦⬛ In diesem Sommer sind viele Amseln in Schleswig-Holstein tot aufgefunden worden. Der NABU vermutet, dass das sogenannte Usutu-Virus die Ursache dafür ist.
👉 Um klar zu identifizieren, ob die Amseln tatsächlich am Usutu-Virus gestorben sind, müssen verendete Vögel auf das Virus getestet werden. Der NABU bittet darum, Todfunde von Amseln auf ihrer Webseite zu melden.