{"id":8345,"date":"2024-12-17T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:37:57","slug":"5-animals-die-after-bird-flu-exposure-at-arizona-zoo-25-employees-exposed-to-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/17\/5-animals-die-after-bird-flu-exposure-at-arizona-zoo-25-employees-exposed-to-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"5 animals die after bird flu exposure at Arizona zoo; 25 employees exposed to virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/12\/13\/bird-flu-arizona-zoo\/76956233007\/\">USA Today<\/a> Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died and others are sick after being exposed to the bird flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maricopa County Department of Public Health officials reported the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifeworld.com\/\">Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium<\/a>&nbsp;in Litchfield Park, about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Phoenix,+AZ\/Wildlife+World+Zoo,+Aquarium+%26+Safari+Park,+West+Northern+Avenue,+Litchfield+Park,+AZ\/@33.5001307,-112.4149581,11z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x872b12ed50a179cb:0x8c69c7f8354a1bac!2m2!1d-112.0740373!2d33.4483771!1m5!1m1!1s0x872b4609ad9c921b:0xaf3367fc489c984a!2m2!1d-112.4114142!2d33.5503568?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">20 miles west of Phoenix<\/a>, transported the ill animals to&nbsp;the Arizona Department of Agriculture to conduct testing that indicated they were likely exposed to avian influenza, a viral disease that mainly impacts birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two big cats and three large birds \u2212 a cheetah, a mountain lion, a<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/species\/purswa3\">\u00a0swamphen,<\/a>\u00a0a kookaburra and an Indian goose \u2212 died after contracting the virus, Jolene Westerling of the Wildlife World Zoo told USA TODAY Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/12\/13\/bird-flu-arizona-zoo\/76956233007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Znc   CZuPPN bkSJa W\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died and others are sick after being exposed to the bird flu. Maricopa County Department of Public Health officials reported the&nbsp;Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium&nbsp;in Litchfield Park, about&nbsp;20 miles west of Phoenix, [&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-8345","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\/8345","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=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}