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Florida - Avian influenza in mammals 2024-2026

Pathfinder

Editor, Senior Moderator
Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Mammals

Last Modified: October 16, 2024
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state county date_collected date_detected hpai_strain species

Florida Brevard 1/4/2024 10/7/2024 EA H5N1 Bottlenose dolphin
Florida Brevard 1/4/2024 10/7/2024 EA H5N1 Bottlenose dolphin
Florida Brevard 12/28/2023 10/7/2024 EA H5N1 Bottlenose dolphin

Florida Dixie 3/30/2022 8/17/2022 EA/AM H5N1 Bottlenose dolphin
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https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/mammals
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See also:

Florida - Avian influenza detected in a bottlenose dolphin recovered in March 2022
https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/h5n1-tracking-af/florida/958326-florida-avian-influenza-detected-in-a-bottlenose-dolphin-recovered-in-march-2022​
 
Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Mammals

Last Modified: January 13, 2025
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https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/mammals

 
Related to post above:

Bird flu kills 10th dolphin in Florida's Indian River Lagoon

Jim Waymer
Florida Today
Feb. 5, 2026, 1:03 p.m. ET

The novel bird flu virus has killed two more bottlenose dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon, bringing the total to 10 dolphins that have died in the past two years of the disease and making the lagoon the word's hotspot for the deadly disease in dolphins.
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The latest results of another two dead dolphins came Jan. 26, from the United Stated Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Results are pending on one other lagoon dolphin that died recently, and it's uncertain how the virus might affect dolphins or us in the long run.
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While in humans the virus mostly targets the lungs, in dolphins it tends to attack the brain, causing them to circle erratically, fail to right themselves and ultimately drown. Both the most recent dolphins were female adults gathered near Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, one on Dec. 23 and one on Dec.28, one in Banana River, the other in Mosquito Lagoon.

Of the other eight dead dolphins they've found in the lagoon over the past two years, four were adults, three juveniles and one was a calf.
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https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...-in-floridas-indian-river-lagoon/88528542007/
 
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