{"id":5819,"date":"2024-02-06T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:22:06","slug":"bird-flu-outbreak-declared-in-niger-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/06\/bird-flu-outbreak-declared-in-niger-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu outbreak declared in Niger capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/africa\/bird-flu-outbreak\/2024\/\">Ghana Online<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The capital city of Niger, Niamey, has been declared an infected zone after a fresh outbreak of the H5N1 strain of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avian_influenza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bird flu<\/a>&nbsp;was detected in local birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus can cause life-threatening sickness in several species of birds including poultry and wild birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans in frequent contact with birds can also become infected. Symptoms can include fever, aching muscles, headache, and a cough or shortness of breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/influenza-(avian-and-other-zoonotic)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Key safety measure to prevent the spread of the illness are<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>washing hands either with soap and running water, or using alcohol hand rubs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>separating raw meat from cooked or ready-to-eat foods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cooking food thoroughly, and handling and storing meat safely<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>According to ActuNiger, over the past two years there have been several outbreaks of H5N1 in Niger, which is classified as a \u201cnotifiable zoonotic animal disease\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Online The capital city of Niger, Niamey, has been declared an infected zone after a fresh outbreak of the H5N1 strain of&nbsp;bird flu&nbsp;was detected in local birds. The virus can cause life-threatening sickness in several species of birds including poultry and wild birds. Humans in frequent contact with birds can also become infected. Symptoms [&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-5819","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\/5819","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=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5820,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}