Spatiotemporal pattern of wild bird deaths during an outbreak of HPAI A(H5H8)
virus, the Netherlands, November 2016–January 2017. A) Outbreak
chronology in tufted duck (red); Eurasian wigeon (blue); unidentified
carcasses (light gray), probably also mostly tufted duck and Eurasian
wigeon; and all other species combined (dark gray). Dashed vertical lines
depict the first detections in wild birds and in poultry in the Netherlands.
B–D) Spatial overview of the reported cumulative number of deaths in
November 2016 (B), December 2016 (C), and January 2017 (D). Each point on
the maps is a pie chart giving the proportions of the respective species
(groups) at that location and their size is scaled to the log10
of the number of reported carcasses. Yellow triangles mark the locations of
outbreaks in commercial poultry holdings. Only locations where
>3 dead birds were reported are shown. HPAI,
highly pathogenic avian influenza.