• D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana, Mateo Aguirre-Florez, Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña, Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo, Juan F Henao-Martínez, Aleksandar Cvetkovic-Vega, Kuldeep Dhama, AliA Rabaan, Ranjit Sah, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales, Patricia Schlagenhauf, and Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi.
• Semillero de Investigacion en Zoonosis (SIZOO), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation Research Group (BIOECOS), Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Sede Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Public Health and Infection Research Group and Incubator, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
• Infez Med. 2020 Dec 1; 28 (4): 475-485.

AbstractWhile the world is focused on attending, controlling, and mitigating the current pandemic of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2, other viral threats are possibly emerging and reemerging especially in Asia, posing a risk for the spread in that region and beyond. A predictable threat is the avian influenza virus, especially H5N6, which has recently led to significant outbreaks in China and the Philippines, deserving more attention and control. In the current review, we assess the history of this highly pathogenic reemerging virus, as well as the contemporary implications of poultry outbreaks occurring in some Asian countries. We also look at outbreaks due to other strains not only in Asia but also across Europe and Africa, according to recent reports from the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE).

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