Image Database: (High Pathogenic) Avian Influenza

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Chicken, head. The comb and wattles are congested and markedly edematous.
Credit: Dr. D. Swayne, USDA
   

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Chicken, shanks. The shanks are swollen (edema) and extensively reddened (hemorrhages).
Credit: Dr. D. Swayne, USDA
   

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Chicken, heart. There are numerous epicardial petechiae.
Credit: Dr. D. Swayne, USDA
   

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Chicken, lung. The lung is diffusely reddened, wet, and swollen (congestion and edema).
Credit: Dr. D. Swayne, USDA
   

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Chicken, proventriculus. There are multiple hemorrhages on the mucosal surface of the proventriculus.
Credit: Dr. D. Swayne, USDA
   

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Chicken, intestine. There are serosal hemorrhages over the Peyer's patches.
Credit: Dr. D. Swayne, USDA

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These images were annotated by Dr. Steve Sorden and funding was provided by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant in collaboration with the Iowa State University Department of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Food Security and Public Health, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Plum Island Animal Disease Center.