https://www.myvetcandy.com/clinicalupdblog/2022/5/20/avian-influenza-how-its-spreading-and-what-to-know-about-this-outbreak

When it comes to avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, all birds are not created equal. 

“The scientific community has become accustomed to speaking about influenza viruses in birds as a group, but birds are an incredibly diverse taxa of animals withdifferent natural history, physiology, and anatomy,” saysJonathan Runstadler, professor and chair of theDepartment of Infectious Disease & Global HealthatCummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

Runstadler is one of the authors of a new study,published today in the journalPLOS Pathogens,which takes a data-driven lookat influenza viruses circulating among different groups of birds and characterizes which types of birds are involved in spreading the virus. The timing of this paper is impeccable, as ahighly pathogenicstrain of bird fluhas been spreading across North America.

This lineage of bird flu originated around 1996 and was first…