{"id":1861,"date":"2022-12-19T07:07:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2022-12-19T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:55:16","slug":"the-world-is-addicted-to-chicken-so-is-the-bird-flu-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/19\/the-world-is-addicted-to-chicken-so-is-the-bird-flu-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Addicted to Chicken. So Is the Bird Flu Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-19\/bird-flu-epidemic-and-farm-culls-will-make-eggs-chicken-turkey-expensive?cmpid=BBD121922_prognosis&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=221219&amp;utm_campaign=prognosis\">Bloomberg<\/a>) The bird flu outbreak ravaging global&nbsp;poultry flocks is now the worst since records began, driving&nbsp;a spike in the price of eggs, threatening free-range chicken and risking long-term impacts to&nbsp;animal health. The avian flu season traditionally begins each October&nbsp;as migratory birds&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woah.org\/en\/disease\/avian-influenza\/\" target=\"_blank\">shed<\/a>&nbsp;infected droppings or saliva while leaving&nbsp;cool areas of the Northern Hemisphere. But&nbsp;this year cases spread rapidly in warmer months,&nbsp;supercharging the virus and prompting mass culls.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The bird flu outbreak ravaging global&nbsp;poultry flocks is now the worst since records began, driving&nbsp;a spike in the price of eggs, threatening free-range chicken and risking long-term impacts to&nbsp;animal health. The avian flu season traditionally begins each October&nbsp;as migratory birds&nbsp;shed&nbsp;infected droppings or saliva while leaving&nbsp;cool areas of the Northern Hemisphere. But&nbsp;this year cases spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-19-at-08.53.21.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","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=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}