{"id":2822,"date":"2023-03-14T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:22:06","slug":"8-dead-skunks-found-in-vancouver-and-richmond-test-positive-for-avian-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/03\/14\/8-dead-skunks-found-in-vancouver-and-richmond-test-positive-for-avian-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"8 dead skunks found in Vancouver and Richmond test positive for avian flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/skunk-avian-flu-1.6777565\">CBC<\/a> The skunks may have contracted influenza by scavenging wild birds, B.C. government says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight skunks found dead last month in Vancouver and&nbsp;nearby Richmond, B.C., have tested positive for avian flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The B.C. government says it is&nbsp;the same strain of avian influenza associated with the outbreak that began in April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The skunks were found in residential areas in both cities and&nbsp;were taken to B.C.&#8217;s Animal Health Centre over concerns they may&nbsp;have been deliberately poisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Columbia&#8217;s Ministry of Agriculture says the skunks were&nbsp;infected with the same H5N1 strain that has caused the deaths of&nbsp;millions of domestic poultry since the outbreak began in April last&nbsp;year.<br><br>The ministry says in a statement the skunks may have contracted&nbsp;H5N1 by scavenging on infected wild birds.<br><br>The statement says while avian flu in skunks is considered to be&nbsp;a low risk to human health, there are always risks when people or&nbsp;pets come into contact with sick or dead wild animals.<br><br>Since last April, the ministry says wildlife infected by the flu&nbsp;included more than 20 species of wild birds, two skunks and a fox&nbsp;found in rural areas of the province.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC The skunks may have contracted influenza by scavenging wild birds, B.C. government says. Eight skunks found dead last month in Vancouver and&nbsp;nearby Richmond, B.C., have tested positive for avian flu. The B.C. government says it is&nbsp;the same strain of avian influenza associated with the outbreak that began in April 2022. The skunks were found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"8 Skunks test positive for #HPAI #H5N1 in #vancouver ","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":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-13.19.46.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","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=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}