{"id":11004,"date":"2025-12-10T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:30:52","slug":"dead-vultures-in-rocky-mount-mark-14th-bird-flu-case-in-virginia-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/10\/dead-vultures-in-rocky-mount-mark-14th-bird-flu-case-in-virginia-since-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead vultures in Rocky Mount mark 14th bird flu case in Virginia since July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/12\/10\/dead-vultures-rocky-mount-marks-14th-bird-flu-case-virginia-since-july\/\">WDBJ<\/a> Fifteen vultures were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/12\/03\/dead-black-vultures-found-rocky-mount-sent-avian-flu-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"found dead in a creek last week, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found dead in a creek last week<\/a>&nbsp;in the area of Franklin and Dent Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on results from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dwr.virginia.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources<\/a>, the black Vultures&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/12\/08\/avian-influenza-detected-vultures-found-dead-rocky-mount\/\">tested positive for avian influenza<\/a>, or bird flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexandra Lombard with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources says the H5 strain they tested positive for was introduced to the U.S. in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July of 2025, there have been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dwr.virginia.gov\/wildlife\/diseases\/avian-influenza\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"14 cases of bird flu, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">14 cases of bird flu<\/a>&nbsp;in Virginia \u2013 all found in vultures, including in Danville, Lynchburg, Franklin County, and Wythe County.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"JMm s mYLUjPs USqvtfdMN knOyBsh \"><!-- JMm s mYLUjPs USqvtfdMN knOyBsh  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WDBJ Fifteen vultures were&nbsp;found dead in a creek last week&nbsp;in the area of Franklin and Dent Street. Based on results from the&nbsp;Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, the black Vultures&nbsp;tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Alexandra Lombard with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources says the H5 strain they tested positive for was introduced [&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-11004","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\/11004","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=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11005,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}