{"id":8413,"date":"2025-01-02T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:08:44","slug":"bird-flu-has-killed-20-big-cats-including-cougars-at-a-u-s-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/02\/bird-flu-has-killed-20-big-cats-including-cougars-at-a-u-s-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/12\/26\/nx-s1-5239841\/bird-flu-kills-20-cats-washington-sanctuary\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> An animal sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., is under quarantine after a bird flu outbreak killed 20 big cats at the facility over the past month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WildFelidAdvocacyCenter\/posts\/pfbid0mSqjyxNfD9Gzkx6hgLwmANkFWJvtUjzyWybcki2F2UkpRmVPv4AJ221Yuv6tBD7hl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called the deaths &#8220;heartbreaking,&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;confirming the virus has claimed more than half its animals, including four cougars and a half-Bengal tiger, since late November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/12\/26\/nx-s1-5239841\/bird-flu-kills-20-cats-washington-sanctuary\">Continue reading<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR An animal sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., is under quarantine after a bird flu outbreak killed 20 big cats at the facility over the past month. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington&nbsp;called the deaths &#8220;heartbreaking,&#8221;&nbsp;confirming the virus has claimed more than half its animals, including four cougars and a half-Bengal tiger, since late November. [&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-8413","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\/8413","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=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}