{"id":4803,"date":"2023-10-03T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:49:41","slug":"south-africa-culls-about-7-5-million-chickens-in-an-effort-to-contain-bird-flu-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/03\/south-africa-culls-about-7-5-million-chickens-in-an-effort-to-contain-bird-flu-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa culls about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain bird flu outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-africa-bird-flu-chickens-52e164b60bee926ff882b3338a6c8626\">AP<\/a> \u00a0South Africa has culled about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two separate strains of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/bird-flu\" target=\"_blank\">avian influenza<\/a>\u00a0that threaten to create a shortage of eggs and poultry for consumers, the government and national poultry association said Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 205,000 chickens have died from bird flu in at least 60 separate outbreaks across the country, with more than half of those outbreaks in Gauteng province, which includes the country\u2019s biggest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some grocery stores in Johannesburg were limiting the number of eggs customers were allowed to buy this week \u2014 in some cases to one carton of six eggs \u2014 and the government acknowledged there were \u201csupply constraints.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP \u00a0South Africa has culled about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two separate strains of\u00a0avian influenza\u00a0that threaten to create a shortage of eggs and poultry for consumers, the government and national poultry association said Tuesday. At least 205,000 chickens have died from bird flu in at least 60 [&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-4803","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\/4803","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=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}