Publications by authors named "Lina Stacker"

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  • The transition of the highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus in Northern Europe led to significant deaths among wild birds and affected raptors that hunt or scavenge infected birds.
  • Surveillance indicated that avian raptors not only carry the virus but also suffer from it, exemplified by the recorded deaths of white-tailed sea eagles in Germany.
  • Despite initial concerns about the virus's impact on bird of prey reproduction, the stable breeding success of WTSEs in 2022 suggests potential resilience or evolving immunity may mitigate long-term effects.
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Global and even national genome surveillance approaches do not provide the resolution necessary for rapid and accurate direct response by local public health authorities. Hence, a regional network of microbiological laboratories in collaboration with the health departments of all districts of the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (M-V) was formed to investigate the regional molecular epidemiology of circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages between 11/2020 and 03/2022. More than 4750 samples from all M-V counties were sequenced using Illumina and Nanopore technologies.

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Mass mortality was observed among colony-breeding seabirds in the German Wadden Sea area of the North Sea during the summer months of 2022. Several species' colonies were affected, most notably sandwich terns (), common terns () and Germany's only northern gannet () colony on the island of Heligoland. Mortality in some tern colonies reached 40%, while other colonies were almost spared.

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During autumn/winter in 2016-2017 and 2020-2021, highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) caused severe outbreaks in Germany and Europe. Multiple clade 2.3.

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From October 2020 to July 2021, five different subtypes (H5N8, H5N5, H5N1, H5N4, and H5N3) and seven genotypes of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) belonging to clade 2.3.4.

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