{"id":11219,"date":"2026-01-14T18:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:20:48","slug":"poultry-farms-need-an-avian-flu-emergency-preparedness-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/14\/poultry-farms-need-an-avian-flu-emergency-preparedness-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultry farms need an avian flu emergency preparedness plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattagnet.com\/poultry-meat\/diseases-health\/avian-influenza\/news\/15814714\/poultry-farms-need-an-avian-flu-emergency-preparedness-plan\">Watt Poultry<\/a> Commercial poultry operations should have an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattagnet.com\/poultry-meat\/diseases-health\/avian-influenza\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"avian influenza, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avian influenza<\/a>&nbsp;emergency preparedness plan as a tool to protect the health and safety of workers, veterinarians and anyone else who comes into contact with poultry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Spencer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattagnet.com\/15493780\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"U.S. Poultry &amp; Egg Association, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Poultry &amp; Egg Association<\/a>&nbsp;vice president of HR and safety programs, highlighted basic requirements of such an emergency preparedness plan during the webinar, \u201cProtecting Poultry Workers from Avian Influenza,\u201d hosted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learning.agrisafe.org\/products\/protecting-poultry-workers-from-avian-influenza-roundtable-discussion#tab-product_tab_speaker_s\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"AgriSafe, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AgriSafe<\/a>&nbsp;Learning Lab on January 13.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watt Poultry Commercial poultry operations should have an&nbsp;avian influenza&nbsp;emergency preparedness plan as a tool to protect the health and safety of workers, veterinarians and anyone else who comes into contact with poultry. Matthew Spencer,&nbsp;U.S. Poultry &amp; Egg Association&nbsp;vice president of HR and safety programs, highlighted basic requirements of such an emergency preparedness plan during the [&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-11219","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\/11219","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=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11220,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions\/11220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}