{"id":11634,"date":"2026-03-11T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:59:06","slug":"college-of-ag-sciences-penn-state-extension-at-forefront-of-avian-flu-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/11\/college-of-ag-sciences-penn-state-extension-at-forefront-of-avian-flu-response\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Ag Sciences, Penn State Extension, at forefront of avian flu response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/agricultural-sciences\/story\/college-ag-sciences-penn-state-extension-forefront-avian-flu-response\">Penn State<\/a> Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) once again is threatening Pennsylvania\u2019s poultry industry, but researchers, diagnosticians and extension educators in Penn State\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agsci.psu.edu\/\">College of Agricultural Sciences<\/a>&nbsp;are at the forefront of efforts to slow the virus, support producers and provide science-based guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States Department of Agriculture reported that 27 flocks in Pennsylvania have tested positive in 2026, impacting more than 7.6 million birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most are in Lancaster County \u2014 the center of the state\u2019s $7.1 billion poultry industry \u2014 with one additional case reported in Dauphin County, according to John Boney, Vernon E. Norris Faculty Fellow in Poultry Nutrition and member of Penn State Extension\u2019s poultry team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said HPAI cases are increasing during the spring migration of wild birds, with the virus spreading through direct contact as well as contaminated equipment and clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/agricultural-sciences\/story\/college-ag-sciences-penn-state-extension-forefront-avian-flu-response\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) once again is threatening Pennsylvania\u2019s poultry industry, but researchers, diagnosticians and extension educators in Penn State\u2019s&nbsp;College of Agricultural Sciences&nbsp;are at the forefront of efforts to slow the virus, support producers and provide science-based guidance. The United States Department of Agriculture reported that 27 flocks in Pennsylvania have tested [&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-11634","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\/11634","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=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11635,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/11635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}