{"id":10984,"date":"2025-12-03T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:13:58","slug":"27-birds-dead-as-avian-flu-surges-across-southeast-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/27-birds-dead-as-avian-flu-surges-across-southeast-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"27 birds dead as avian flu surges across Southeast Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/gulf-coast\/article\/texas-bird-flu-avian-galveston-21218905.php\">Chron<\/a> Officials\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/gulf-coast\/article\/galveston-county-fire-desalination-plant-21192865.php\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"in Galveston County, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Galveston County<\/a>\u00a0confirmed Monday several positive\u00a0cases of avian influenza, or bird flu, across the area. In fact, the county said that 27 birds have died from influenza, known as H5N1, already during this outbreak. &#8220;Of the 27, six birds have been sent to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/2-year-federal-probe-of-animal-treatment-finds-11036691.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"University of Texas Medical Branch, opens in a new window\" class=\"\">University of Texas Medical Branch<\/a>&nbsp;(UTMB) for further diagnostic testing and confirmation,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GCHDInfo\/posts\/pfbid06co2WWxfAvvwnZH2hC5jkcmZ2WFBHrmvCAWFMiS82FpJE1cMqW8if34qGudZNLvtl\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"read a release issued Monday, opens in a new window\" class=\"\">read a release issued Monday<\/a>&nbsp;by the Galveston County Health District. The birds were found in Dickinson, Santa Fe and Texas City, according to the Health District&#8217;s Amanda Wolff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the Health District said 10 humans had direct contact with infected birds. All 10 individuals were evaluated and eight had flu-like symptoms, but all testing came back negative for influenza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chron Officials\u00a0in Galveston County\u00a0confirmed Monday several positive\u00a0cases of avian influenza, or bird flu, across the area. In fact, the county said that 27 birds have died from influenza, known as H5N1, already during this outbreak. &#8220;Of the 27, six birds have been sent to the&nbsp;University of Texas Medical Branch&nbsp;(UTMB) for further diagnostic testing and confirmation,&#8221;&nbsp;read [&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-10984","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\/10984","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=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10985,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/10985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}