{"id":8591,"date":"2025-01-28T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:15:10","slug":"ohio-leads-the-nation-in-bird-flu-cases-whats-being-done-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/28\/ohio-leads-the-nation-in-bird-flu-cases-whats-being-done-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio leads the nation in bird flu cases. What\u2019s being done about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/2025-01-27\/ohio-leads-the-nation-in-bird-flu-cases-whats-being-done-about-it\">WOSU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio is leading the nation in cases of bird flu. That\u2019s potentially a big hit to the state, the second-largest producer of eggs in the country. And the state\u2019s agriculture department said with new test numbers coming in, the total of the infected chickens, ducks and turkeys continues to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re pushing over 6 million,\u201d said Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Brian Baldridge. \u201cWe&#8217;re cautious to talk about exact numbers until everything is confirmed, because it&#8217;s ever ongoing. As we work through this, hoping the end is near here and in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been around 10 reports of bird flu, resulting in this testing. Baldridge said when it\u2019s finished, he thinks there could be a total of about 30 different cases of bird flu at different farms, with the majority in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/2025-01-21\/bird-flu-mercer-county-ohio-chickens\">Darke and Mercer counties<\/a>&nbsp;in Western Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/2025-01-27\/ohio-leads-the-nation-in-bird-flu-cases-whats-being-done-about-it\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOSU Ohio is leading the nation in cases of bird flu. That\u2019s potentially a big hit to the state, the second-largest producer of eggs in the country. And the state\u2019s agriculture department said with new test numbers coming in, the total of the infected chickens, ducks and turkeys continues to grow. \u201cWe&#8217;re pushing over 6 [&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-8591","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\/8591","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=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}