H5N3 is a subtype of the species

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(sometimes called the bird flu virus). __TOC__

History

H5N3 was identified in

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in August 2005 and in Sweden in October 2005. H5N3

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was identified at a farm in

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, France in late January 2009. Ninety birds were found dead between 29 January 2009 and 31 January 2009. The remaining stock of 4,932 birds was culled on 1 February 2009. In Germany, in December 2013, 102 ostriches and 28 chickens in a farm in

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were slaughtered due to suspicion of infection with avian influenza. Samples showed that the birds were infected with the H5N3 virus.

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