{"id":11641,"date":"2026-03-11T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:52:48","slug":"warning-to-stay-away-from-elephant-seals-after-bird-flu-detected-at-ano-nuevo-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/11\/warning-to-stay-away-from-elephant-seals-after-bird-flu-detected-at-ano-nuevo-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning to stay away from elephant seals after bird flu detected at A\u00f1o Nuevo State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/warning-stay-away-from-elephant-seals-after-bird-flu-detected-ano-nuevo-state-park\">Fox<\/a> Health officials are warning beachgoers to stay away from marine life after confirming the state&#8217;s first cases of bird flu in elephant seals at A\u00f1o Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County. Infected seal pups are displaying symptoms including tremors and seizures, according to wildlife experts. The virus is considered highly contagious among animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Park officials have closed all viewing areas and canceled all guided tours for the season in response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities are urging the public to avoid contact with sick or dead animals along the coast and to keep pets on leashes near the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven weaned elephant seal pups in the park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed in late February,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2026\/02\/first-cases-of-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-in-northern-elephant-seals-confirmed-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\u00a0according to scientists at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.\u00a0, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0according to scientists at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/warning-stay-away-from-elephant-seals-after-bird-flu-detected-ano-nuevo-state-park\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Health officials are warning beachgoers to stay away from marine life after confirming the state&#8217;s first cases of bird flu in elephant seals at A\u00f1o Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County. Infected seal pups are displaying symptoms including tremors and seizures, according to wildlife experts. The virus is considered highly contagious among animals. [&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-11641","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\/11641","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=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11642,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}