{"id":8653,"date":"2025-02-04T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:44:58","slug":"hundreds-of-ducks-found-sick-or-dead-along-lake-michigan-as-outbreak-of-h5n1-bird-flu-hits-chicago-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/04\/hundreds-of-ducks-found-sick-or-dead-along-lake-michigan-as-outbreak-of-h5n1-bird-flu-hits-chicago-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of ducks found sick or dead along Lake Michigan as outbreak of H5N1 bird flu hits Chicago area"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/chicago-news\/hundreds-of-ducks-found-sick-or-dead-of-suspected-bird-flu-along-lake-michigan-local-conservation-group-reports\/\">WGN9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of ducks infected with avian influenza \u2014 H5N1 bird flu \u2014 have been found along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area, prompting warnings from area health officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdmonitors.net\/\">Chicago Bird Collision Monitors<\/a>&nbsp;(CBCM), a volunteer conservation project dedicated to the protection of migratory birds, said in a post on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChicagoBirdCollisionMonitors\/\">its Facebook page<\/a>&nbsp;Sunday that the bird flu outbreak \u201cis posing a serious threat to the bird life in the Chicago region this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak started in December and has now spread from a few reports in the suburbs to hundreds in the city, along Lake Michigan, over the last week. Birds affected include geese, hawks, owls, at least one eagle and ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/chicago-news\/hundreds-of-ducks-found-sick-or-dead-of-suspected-bird-flu-along-lake-michigan-local-conservation-group-reports\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ssSXpMwNSX r eSqEStL xgl  el \">ssSXpMwNSX r eSqEStL xgl  el <\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WGN9 Hundreds of ducks infected with avian influenza \u2014 H5N1 bird flu \u2014 have been found along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area, prompting warnings from area health officials. The&nbsp;Chicago Bird Collision Monitors&nbsp;(CBCM), a volunteer conservation project dedicated to the protection of migratory birds, said in a post on&nbsp;its Facebook page&nbsp;Sunday that [&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-8653","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\/8653","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=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}