{"id":8551,"date":"2025-01-22T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:05:40","slug":"bird-flu-found-in-a-second-commercial-flock-georgia-agriculture-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/22\/bird-flu-found-in-a-second-commercial-flock-georgia-agriculture-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu found in a second commercial flock, Georgia agriculture officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/01\/22\/bird-flu-found-second-commercial-flock-georgia-agriculture-officials-say\/\">Atlanta News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A second commercial case of avian influenza, or the \u201cbird flu,\u201d has been confirmed in northeast Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease was found in a commercial flock in Elbert County on Wednesday, the department said. That\u2019s the same county the first case was found in last Friday. \u201cThis is a serious threat to Georgia\u2019s #1 industry and the livelihoods of thousands of Georgians who make their living in our state\u2019s poultry industry,\u201d Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper said in a previous statement. \u201cWe are working around the clock to mitigate any further spread of the disease and ensure that normal poultry activities in Georgia can resume as quickly as possible.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/01\/22\/bird-flu-found-second-commercial-flock-georgia-agriculture-officials-say\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta News A second commercial case of avian influenza, or the \u201cbird flu,\u201d has been confirmed in northeast Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture. The disease was found in a commercial flock in Elbert County on Wednesday, the department said. That\u2019s the same county the first case was found in last Friday. \u201cThis [&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-8551","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\/8551","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=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8552,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions\/8552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}