{"id":7289,"date":"2024-08-07T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:12:55","slug":"on-front-lines-of-bird-flu-dead-chickens-biohazard-suits-and-shrugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/07\/on-front-lines-of-bird-flu-dead-chickens-biohazard-suits-and-shrugs\/","title":{"rendered":"On front lines of bird flu: dead chickens, biohazard suits and shrugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2024\/08\/07\/bird-flu-farm-neighbors-not-worried\/74648848007\/\">USA Today<\/a> The federal scientists in biohazard suits outside a massive \u2012 but virtually deserted \u2012 chicken farm don&#8217;t need to say a word to indicate that something is very wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a normal day, the farm&#8217;s driveway would be filled with trucks, some arriving with feed and others departing with cases and cartons of eggs destined for grocery stores and restaurants across the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on a recent afternoon, all was quiet, except for a handful of workers drifting across the sprawling farm&#8217;s complex, and the two white-suited experts with the federal government&#8217;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, their pant legs tucked in or taped carefully to their boots.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today The federal scientists in biohazard suits outside a massive \u2012 but virtually deserted \u2012 chicken farm don&#8217;t need to say a word to indicate that something is very wrong. On a normal day, the farm&#8217;s driveway would be filled with trucks, some arriving with feed and others departing with cases and cartons of [&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-7289","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\/7289","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=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}