12.11.2016

H5N8 was found in ducks near Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Kreuzlingen is a village on Lake Constance. Waterfowl on the Austrian side of the lake had also died from the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Three tufted ducks were found dead in Lake Constance on Nov 4, 10 ducks on the Austrian shores of Lake Constance also died on Nov 7. Virus sequencing showed H5N8, the same H5 clade that's been found in India, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.