{"id":11779,"date":"2026-04-01T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11779"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:13:24","slug":"deadly-virus-first-detected-in-bay-area-park-found-in-central-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/01\/deadly-virus-first-detected-in-bay-area-park-found-in-central-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly virus first detected in Bay Area park found in Central California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/centralcoast\/article\/virus-bay-area-california-22158465.php\">SF Gate<\/a>  A strain of the deadly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/avian-flu-california-seals-21939498.php\" class=\"\">avian flu<\/a>\u00a0detected in Ano Nuevo State Park last month, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/bay-area-virus-spreads-22073761.php\" class=\"\">cases<\/a>\u00a0confirmed in California marine mammals for the first time ever, has been documented in another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/virus-bay-area-county-22084262.php\" class=\"\">new county<\/a>\u00a0hundreds of miles south of the initial outbreak. On Thursday, UC Davis\u2019 Institute for Pandemic Insights\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pandemicinsights.ucdavis.edu\/h5-marine-outbreak\" class=\"\">reported<\/a>\u00a0a case of HPAI H5N1 was confirmed in a dead California sea lion found on a beach in San Luis Obispo. The animal was approximately one to two years old, and the third known sea lion to contract the virus since the start of the outbreak, with the other two individuals found in San\u00a0Mateo County.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/centralcoast\/article\/virus-bay-area-california-22158465.php\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Gate A strain of the deadly\u00a0avian flu\u00a0detected in Ano Nuevo State Park last month, with\u00a0cases\u00a0confirmed in California marine mammals for the first time ever, has been documented in another\u00a0new county\u00a0hundreds of miles south of the initial outbreak. On Thursday, UC Davis\u2019 Institute for Pandemic Insights\u00a0reported\u00a0a case of HPAI H5N1 was confirmed in a dead [&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-11779","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\/11779","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=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11780,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}