{"id":5065,"date":"2023-10-25T08:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2023-10-25T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:02:38","slug":"unique-souvenir-from-vacation-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/25\/unique-souvenir-from-vacation-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Souvenir from Vacation in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/giraffe-poop-customs-minnesota-trnd\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> Customs workers at a Minnesota airport discovered a traveler had brought a unique souvenir in her luggage: Giraffe feces. The passenger arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport from Kenya on September 29,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/unusual-repurpose-giraffe-feces-seized-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\">according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe passenger declared giraffe feces and stated she had obtained the droppings in Kenya and planned to make a necklace,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traveler said she had previously used moose feces to make similar jewelry at her home in Iowa, according to customs officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency\u2019s agriculture specialists \u201cseized the box, and the excrement was destroyed via steam sterilization\u201d according to protocol, the release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is a real danger with bringing fecal matter into the U.S.,\u201d LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, director of field operations at the agency\u2019s Chicago field office, said in the release. \u201cIf this person had entered the U.S. and had not declared these items, there is high possibility a person could have contracted a disease from this jewelry and developed serious health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bringing \u201cruminant animal feces\u201d into the US requires a veterinary services permit, the release said. The agency noted Kenya experiences African Swine Fever, Classical Swine Fever, Newcastle disease, Foot and Mouth disease, and Swine Vesicular Disease.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Customs workers at a Minnesota airport discovered a traveler had brought a unique souvenir in her luggage: Giraffe feces. The passenger arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport from Kenya on September 29,\u00a0according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. \u201cThe passenger declared giraffe feces and stated she had obtained the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5066,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-25-at-09.01.58.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","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=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}