{"id":5146,"date":"2023-11-07T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2023-11-07T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:09:48","slug":"nearly-1m-chickens-will-be-killed-on-a-minnesota-farm-because-of-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/07\/nearly-1m-chickens-will-be-killed-on-a-minnesota-farm-because-of-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1M chickens will be killed on a Minnesota farm because of bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bird-flu-eggs-minnesota-usda-8bc83b0d60872c0af6d7733d76e21a99\">AP<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 1 million chickens on a Minnesota egg farm will be\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-business-bird-flu-flu-animals-189a7c08d848047f00b3f7b5bec39e67\" target=\"_blank\">slaughtered<\/a>\u00a0to help limit the spread of the highly contagious bird flu after it was confirmed there, officials said Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/aphis\/ourfocus\/animalhealth\/animal-disease-information\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-2022\/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that the virus was found at a farm in Wright County, Minnesota, as well as in three smaller flocks in South Dakota and Iowa. Whenever the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus is detected on a farm, the entire flock is killed as to keep it from spreading to other farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the Minnesota case, the USDA said some 26,800 turkeys will be killed on a farm in McPherson County in South Dakota and nearly 17,000 birds will be slaughtered on two farms in Iowa\u2019s Clay County.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Nearly 1 million chickens on a Minnesota egg farm will be\u00a0slaughtered\u00a0to help limit the spread of the highly contagious bird flu after it was confirmed there, officials said Monday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture&nbsp;announced&nbsp;that the virus was found at a farm in Wright County, Minnesota, as well as in three smaller flocks in South [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/5146","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=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}