{"id":2372,"date":"2023-01-31T17:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:40:06","slug":"free-range-egg-supply-at-risk-as-uk-poultry-kept-indoors-while-bird-flu-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/31\/free-range-egg-supply-at-risk-as-uk-poultry-kept-indoors-while-bird-flu-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-Range Egg Supply at Risk as UK Poultry Kept Indoors While Bird-Flu Rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-31\/uk-poultry-kept-indoors-as-bird-flu-rages-curbing-free-range-eggs?srnd=prognosis\">Bloomberg<\/a>)  UK chickens and hens will stay indoors until the country\u2019s worst-ever bird flu outbreak abates further.\u00a0 While risk levels are reviewed weekly, housing orders in place\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-31\/poultry-lockdown-looms-in-england-to-thwart-spread-of-bird-flu\" target=\"_blank\">since November<\/a>\u00a0in England may not lift until spring, when wild birds that carry the virus migrate elsewhere, Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said Tuesday. That means free-range eggs \u2014 which typically account for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/egg-statistics\/quarterly-uk-statistics-about-eggs-statistics-notice-data-to-december-2022\" target=\"_blank\">more than half<\/a>\u00a0of supply \u2014 could soon be off the shelves.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) UK chickens and hens will stay indoors until the country\u2019s worst-ever bird flu outbreak abates further.\u00a0 While risk levels are reviewed weekly, housing orders in place\u00a0since November\u00a0in England may not lift until spring, when wild birds that carry the virus migrate elsewhere, Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said Tuesday. That means free-range eggs \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":[37,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-featured"],"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\/2372","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=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}