In a Muscovy duck breeding-growing farm in Aomori prefecture, most of
ducklings hatched during spring in 1994 died within two-week-old. The
mortality was nearly 100%. In most cases, birds died without clinical
signs and some with leg weakness. By serological and virological tests
, the outbreak was identified as a goose parvovirus infection. In path
ological test, however, no typical manifestations of goose parvovirus
infections (hepatitis and intranuclear inclusion bodies in hepatic cel
ls) were detected.