{"id":10599,"date":"2025-10-22T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:12:47","slug":"bird-flu-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/bird-flu-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/22\/health\/h5n1-bird-flu.html\">NYT<\/a> After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays \u2014 and in the midst of a federal government shutdown. Bird flu is back. After a quiet summer, the virus has hit dozens of poultry flocks, resulting in the deaths of nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/commercial-backyard-flocks\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"seven million farmed birds, opens in a new window\">seven million farmed birds<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States since the beginning of September. Among them: about 1.3 million turkeys, putting pressure on the nation\u2019s turkey supply in the run-up to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/wild-birds\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"infected wild birds, opens in a new window\">infected wild birds<\/a>&nbsp;have also surged this fall, and three states \u2014 Idaho, Nebraska and Texas \u2014 have identified&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"outbreaks in dairy cows, opens in a new window\">outbreaks in dairy cows<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus often flares up in the fall as wild birds begin migrating south; this year, the uptick is occurring during a government shutdown, as federal agencies that are typically involved in the response are working with skeletal staff.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays \u2014 and in the midst of a federal government shutdown. Bird flu is back. After a quiet summer, the virus has hit dozens of poultry flocks, resulting in the deaths of nearly&nbsp;seven million farmed birds&nbsp;in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}