Influenza Viruses in Wildlife 2025
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: influenza virus; wildlife health; epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid global spread of highly pathogenic (HP) H5N1 avian influenza virus (IAV) continues to impact domestic animal, wildlife, and human health, often with devastating consequences. Additionally, low pathogenicity (LP) IAV continue to circulate in wild birds and other wildlife species across the world, further complicating our understanding of the mechanisms driving, and in some cases, modulating, maintenance and transmission of HPAI. Research aimed at better understanding HP and LP IAV spread, evolution, diversity, and impacts in wild birds and mammals is critical to not only defining risk at critical human-animal interfaces, but equally important for defining potential threats and risks to a wide-range of wildlife species.
Resiliency of wildlife populations is key to healthy ecosystems, and as such, it is our pleasure to announce this Special Issue of Viruses entitled “Influenza Viruses in Wildlife 2025”. The focus will be on influenza viruses (both HP and LP) of non-human animal species, especially those of wild birds and mammals. We welcome submissions that include classical virology, genomic analyses, case reports, surveillance, epidemiology, and ecology of animal influenza viruses. Multi-disciplinary research is encouraged; original research and review articles will be considered for publication.
Dr. Rebecca Poulson
Dr. Wendy Blay Puryear
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- avian influenza
- wild birds
- wildlife
- influenza epidemiology
- surveillance
- HPAI
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