“…Geographical distribution, based on available geocoordinates, of confirmed HPAI A(H5N1) outbreaks in domestic birds (circles) and wild birds (triangles) (n=32); red symbols indicate outbreaks that occurred between 16 May and 15 August 2020, grey symbols indicate outbreaks that occurred between 15 August 2019 and 15 May 2020 (FAO, online-a) Information extracted from the scientific literatureAnnand et al (2020) described two A(H5N1) viruses isolated from infected chickens collected during an HPAI outbreak that took place in October 2018, in a backyard flock in south-eastern Laos. Their H5 sequences belonged to clade 2.3.2.1c and were related to other HPAI A(H5N1) viruses detected in Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam during the previous years.Following a surveillance programme from environment and poultry samples collected at live bird markets in Indonesia between 2014 and 2019,Dharmayanti et al (2020a) reported detection of HPAI A(H5N1) viruses belonging to clades 2.1.3.2a and 2.3.2.1c. Between 2017 and 2019, three clade 2.3.2.1c viruses were identified (one in 2017, from duck swab samples, and two in 2019, from Muscovy duck and chicken samples) as well as one clade 2.1.2.3a A(H5N1) virus (the latter characterised in 2018, from chicken swab samples).…”