“…In 2016, a goose astrovirus causing gout in goslings emerged in Shandong Province, and it quickly spread to other goose‐breeding regions, including Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Guangdong and Sichuan Provinces (Liu, Jiang, Dong, Wang, & Zhang, ; Niu et al, ; Yang, Tian, Tang, & Diao, ; Yuan et al, ; Zhang, Ren, et al, ). The morbidity rate of the infected goslings was approximately 50%, thereby resulting in high mortality (15%–30%).…”