The Dorset Wildlife Trust has identified an outbreak of HPAI among terns and gulls nesting on the Brownsea Lagoon near Dorset. Approximately 600 dead birds were counted. The diagnosis was confirmed of the by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (equivalent to USDA).  A second report of dead seabirds washing up on beaches near Gootle in Cumberland was also attributed to HPAI by DEFRA.

Sweden reported outbreaks in gulls in three areas together with a goshawk presumably infected by predation or scavenging.

Inevitably H5N1 infection in free-living birds results in cases in commercial and backyard farms. WOAH received reports of outbreaks this past week in Nyborg, Denmark, Molkoposkie, Poland and Gotland, Sweden.

The persistence of H5N1 in marine and costal birds during their nesting period suggests reemergence of HPAI at their migratory destinations.