{"id":8287,"date":"2024-12-11T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2024-12-11T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:35:09","slug":"h5-avian-flu-detected-at-wastewater-sampling-site-in-hilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/11\/h5-avian-flu-detected-at-wastewater-sampling-site-in-hilo\/","title":{"rendered":"H5 Avian Flu Detected at Wastewater Sampling Site in Hilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/governor.hawaii.gov\/newsroom\/news-release-h5-avian-flu-detected-at-wastewater-sampling-site-in-hilo\/\">State of Hawaii<\/a> The Hawai\u2018i Department of Health (DOH) State Laboratories Division has detected H5 avian influenza (bird flu)&nbsp;in a wastewater sample collected on&nbsp;Dec. 2 at the Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant on Hawai\u02bbi Island.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first detection of bird flu on a neighbor island and indicates an H5 type of bird flu virus was present. Wastewater testing cannot determine&nbsp;if&nbsp;the detection is specifically the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 subtype of bird flu virus which was recently found on O\u02bbahu.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0presence of the\u00a0H5N1 virus in Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0was first confirmed\u00a0in November 2024 in a backyard flock of birds in Central O\u02bbahu.\u00a0That\u00a0virus strain\u00a0was\u00a0a different genotype of the virus that has infected\u00a0birds and\u00a0dairy cows on the U.S. mainland.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/governor.hawaii.gov\/newsroom\/news-release-h5-avian-flu-detected-at-wastewater-sampling-site-in-hilo\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" P eo\"> P eo<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Hawaii The Hawai\u2018i Department of Health (DOH) State Laboratories Division has detected H5 avian influenza (bird flu)&nbsp;in a wastewater sample collected on&nbsp;Dec. 2 at the Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant on Hawai\u02bbi Island.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the first detection of bird flu on a neighbor island and indicates an H5 type of bird flu virus [&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-8287","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\/8287","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=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}