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Avian influenza in wild birds and poultry flocks constitutes a problem for animal welfare, food security and public health. In recent years there have been increasing numbers of outbreaks in Europe, with many poultry flocks culled after being infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Continuous monitoring is crucial to enable timely implementation of control to prevent HPAI spread from wild birds to poultry and between poultry flocks within a country. We here utilize readily available public surveillance data and time-series models to predict HPAI detections within European countries and show a seasonal shift that happened during 2021–2022. The output is models capable of monitoring the weekly risk of HPAI outbreaks, to support decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a correction notice for an article titled "Using surveillance data for early warning modelling of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Europe reveals a seasonal shift in transmission, 2016–2022." The original article can be found online at the provided link. The correction notice states that the Acknowledgments section was omitted in the original version of the article and has now been added. The work was carried out as part of the ENIGMA project, which is a veterinary contingency project funded by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. The original article has been corrected. The authors of the article are Lene Jung Kjær, Michael P. Ward, Anette Ella Boklund, Lars Erik Larsen, Charlotte Kristiane Hjulsager, and Carsten Thure Kirkeby. [Extracted from the article]