{"id":5290,"date":"2023-11-21T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:20:40","slug":"maryland-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-confirmed-in-caroline-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/21\/maryland-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-confirmed-in-caroline-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Confirmed in Caroline County\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2023\/11\/21\/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-confirmed-in-caroline-county\/\">Maryland.gov<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State laboratory testing has detected a case of highly pathogenic&nbsp;<strong>H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI)<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>Caroline County<\/strong>. Following increased mortality of a broiler operation and investigation by the&nbsp;<strong>Maryland Department of Agriculture,<\/strong>&nbsp;it has been preliminarily confirmed that poultry from the affected farm has tested positive for HPAI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State officials have quarantined all affected premises, and birds on the properties are being or have been depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. Birds from affected flocks will not enter the food system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmation by the&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratory<\/strong>&nbsp;is pending with final results anticipated in the coming days.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHigh Pathogenic Avian influenza or HPAI does not affect poultry meat or egg products, which remain healthy and safe to eat and handle. Poultry growers, operators, and backyard flock owners should be on high alert of the threat of HPAI,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Maryland Department of Agriculture Secretary Kevin Atticks<\/strong>. \u201cThe Maryland Department of Agriculture, local health department, USDA and partner organizations are working diligently to address the situation, including quarantining and testing nearby flocks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland.gov State laboratory testing has detected a case of highly pathogenic&nbsp;H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI)&nbsp;in&nbsp;Caroline County. Following increased mortality of a broiler operation and investigation by the&nbsp;Maryland Department of Agriculture,&nbsp;it has been preliminarily confirmed that poultry from the affected farm has tested positive for HPAI. State officials have quarantined all affected premises, and birds on the [&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-5290","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\/5290","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=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}