{"id":3926,"date":"2023-06-20T19:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2023-06-20T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:36:41","slug":"unprecedented-avian-flu-outbreak-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/06\/20\/unprecedented-avian-flu-outbreak-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Avian Flu Outbreak Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/avian-flu-outbreak-continues\/\">Science Friday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Podcast, link to audio file at the link above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avian influenza has been circulating for decades among wild birds, but the US is now experiencing the worst outbreak in its history. That\u2019s because of a specific strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has left around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/avian-flu-summary.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60 millions birds<\/a>\u2014mostly poultry\u2014dead. This has implications for us all, whether you\u2019re frustrated about the price of eggs, worried about your backyard chickens, or concerned about yet another threat to public health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this live call-in, Ira talks with Ashleigh Blackford, the California Condor Coordinator at the US Fish &amp; Wildlife Service about the initiative to vaccinate California condors\u2014the first of its kind to vaccinate any bird.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Ira explores what this outbreak means for other wildlife, poultry, and for us. He talks with Dr. Kristy Pabilonia, professor and director of the Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratories at Colorado State University, and Dr. Richard Webby, director of the WHO\u2019s Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds and a researcher at St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Friday Podcast, link to audio file at the link above. Avian influenza has been circulating for decades among wild birds, but the US is now experiencing the worst outbreak in its history. That\u2019s because of a specific strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has left around&nbsp;60 millions birds\u2014mostly poultry\u2014dead. This has implications for [&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-3926","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\/3926","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=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}