“…In addition, the goose meat industry is a significant part of the national agriculture (Li et al., ). Nonetheless, with the development of industrial scale and an increasing stocking density, infectious diseases of geese, especially AIV, NDV, TMUV, GoCV and GPV, have gradually become more endemic (Lee et al., ; Liu, Zhang, Chen, Wang, & Cheng, ; Sun et al., ; Wang et al., ; Yu, Zhu, Zheng, He, & Liu, ). These diseases can cause death or severe losses of production performance of geese, whether as a mono‐infection or co‐infection, and have always been damaging to the status of the goose breeding industry and have caused enormous economic losses (Shehata et al., ).…”