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ArticleTransboundary and emerging diseases2026

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Caused Mass Death Among Black-Legged Kittiwakes (

Grim Rømo, Caroline Piercey Åkesson, Tone Kristin Reiertsen, Johanna Hol Fosse, Cathrine Arnason Bøe, Lars Austbø, Johan Åkerstedt, Maryam Saghafian, Morten Helberg, Olav Hungnes and 6 more

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Article in Transboundary and emerging diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Grim RømoDepartment of Animal Health, Welfare and Food Safety, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4106-1613
Caroline Piercey ÅkessonDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1733-7403
Tone Kristin ReiertsenFRAM Centre, Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, Tromsø, Norway, nina.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9579-2420
Johanna Hol FosseDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5837-5006
Cathrine Arnason BøeDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6834-0460
Lars AustbøDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0632-698X
Johan ÅkerstedtDepartment of Animal Health, Welfare and Food Safety, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7887-6887
Maryam SaghafianDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.
Morten HelbergBirdLife Norway, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-2444
Olav HungnesDepartment of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, fhi.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-0130
Britt GjersetDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6209-3024
Silje GranstadDepartment of Animal Health, Welfare and Food Safety, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3869-5760
Gørill HogsethNorthern Region, Norwegian Food Safety Authority, Vadsø, Norway.
Siri LøtvedtDepartment of Regulations and Control, Norwegian Food Safety Authority, Oslo, Norway.
Anne DøsenDepartment of Regulations and Control, Norwegian Food Safety Authority, Oslo, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2566-9283
Ragnhild TønnessenDepartment of Analysis and Diagnostics, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway, vetinst.no.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2671-0089

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2023, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) heavily affected gulls in Europe. In July, a mass mortality event was reported in the black-legged kittiwake (

Indexed as

CharadriiformesDisease OutbreaksInfluenza A Virus, H5N1 SubtypeInfluenza in BirdsAnimalsNorwayblack-legged kittiwakegullsH5N1highly pathogenic avian influenzaHPAINorwayOne Healthpathologyreceptorsvirology

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PMID41725838
PMCPMC12917261

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