{"id":8297,"date":"2024-12-11T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:34:09","slug":"central-valley-is-ground-zero-for-bird-flu-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/11\/central-valley-is-ground-zero-for-bird-flu-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Valley is ground zero for bird flu outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesungazette.com\/article\/news\/2024\/12\/11\/central-valley-is-ground-zero-for-bird-flu-outbreak\/\">SunGazette<\/a> The Central Valley is the epicenter for the bird flu epidemic drastically reducing the state\u2019s poultry supply and slightly dropping its milk supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New cases of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), are being discovered and posted daily by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for both the dairy and poultry industry in California. The virus is spread by infected wild birds, which can carry the virus without themselves getting sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two farm animal businesses are some of the state\u2019s most important ag industries, clustered in the Central Valley, often just down the road from each other. The names of the affected facilities are not made public. But when more than half of the state\u2019s dairies are quarantined due to the virus and some 8 million chickens in the state had to be destroyed \u2013 including over 5 million egg layers representing about half of the egg laying flock in the Golden State \u2013 Californians will no doubt feel the shortages at the grocery store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Mattos, president of the California Poultry Federation, said the situation is \u201creally scary\u201d as the poultry industry is reeling from the financial impact of so many ranches being devastated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesungazette.com\/article\/news\/2024\/12\/11\/central-valley-is-ground-zero-for-bird-flu-outbreak\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SunGazette The Central Valley is the epicenter for the bird flu epidemic drastically reducing the state\u2019s poultry supply and slightly dropping its milk supply. New cases of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), are being discovered and posted daily by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and California Department of Food [&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-8297","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\/8297","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=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}