{"id":8678,"date":"2025-02-05T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:28:38","slug":"oregon-what-to-know-about-willamette-valley-wild-turkeys-and-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/05\/oregon-what-to-know-about-willamette-valley-wild-turkeys-and-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon: What to know about Willamette Valley wild turkeys and bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemreporter.com\/2025\/02\/03\/column-what-to-know-about-willamette-valley-wild-turkeys-and-bird-flu\/#:~:text=As%20of%20late%20January%2C%202025,%2C%20stripe%20skunk%2C%20and%20marten.\">Salem Reporter<\/a>  Can wild turkeys get avian flu?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. So can chickens, peafowl, ducks, geese, hawks, even cats, dairy cows, and people. Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota have found significant infection among wild turkey flocks. There\u2019s been one known outbreak among wild turkeys in Oregon. Those turkeys shared a pond with a domestic poultry flock that got infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing about avian flu is simple, not even the tiny virus that causes it. The dangerous strain of avian flu has two names\u2014\u201dH5N1,\u201d a specific genetic variety of the virus, and \u201cHPAI,\u201d Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Recently a second strain has been detected. It\u2019s labelled \u201cH5N9\u201d and was found on a duck farm in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon Fish and Wildlife advises: \u201cWe are monitoring for HPAI and will test turkeys that die for unknown reasons, but otherwise\u00a0ODFW\u2019s management of wild turkeys in the Willamette Valley has not changed,\u201d according to spokeswoman Beth Quillian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemreporter.com\/2025\/02\/03\/column-what-to-know-about-willamette-valley-wild-turkeys-and-bird-flu\/#:~:text=As%20of%20late%20January%2C%202025,%2C%20stripe%20skunk%2C%20and%20marten.\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Z XAB\">Z XAB<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salem Reporter Can wild turkeys get avian flu? Yes. So can chickens, peafowl, ducks, geese, hawks, even cats, dairy cows, and people. Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota have found significant infection among wild turkey flocks. There\u2019s been one known outbreak among wild turkeys in Oregon. Those turkeys shared a pond with a domestic poultry flock [&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-8678","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\/8678","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=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}