{"id":8693,"date":"2025-02-11T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:04:04","slug":"dead-wild-birds-found-in-ann-arbor-chain-of-lakes-amid-bird-flu-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/11\/dead-wild-birds-found-in-ann-arbor-chain-of-lakes-amid-bird-flu-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead wild birds found in Ann Arbor, Chain of Lakes amid bird flu outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/2025\/02\/dead-wild-birds-found-in-ann-arbor-chain-of-lakes-amid-bird-flu-outbreak.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYocVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ4yf0moY1Xd-9GvzH3IYMiZToNQgUT5l46-BF6NolYthRS3uKNuUS7cdg_aem_NWN3bOXjTE2VBDVuS6_AAA\">Michigan Live<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"UEAU5E4IQBG3DKAWIJDVAY7HQY\">The sad sight of dead swans, geese and ducks met Betsy Sallade-Farina when she woke up Thursday, Feb. 6, on her lake near the county line between Livingston and Washtenaw counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"53P67Y74PREBLEZNKGR223PKFU\">\u201cI\u2019ve been on the chain of lakes all my life, and I\u2019ve never seen so many birds dead like that,\u201d said Sallade-Farina, who lives on Little Whitewood Lake in Hamburg Township north of Dexter. An outbreak of avian influenza, known as bird flu, is leading to reports of wild birds dying off in southern Michigan, including in and around Ann Arbor, according to state wildlife pathologist Julie Melotti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/2025\/02\/dead-wild-birds-found-in-ann-arbor-chain-of-lakes-amid-bird-flu-outbreak.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYocVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ4yf0moY1Xd-9GvzH3IYMiZToNQgUT5l46-BF6NolYthRS3uKNuUS7cdg_aem_NWN3bOXjTE2VBDVuS6_AAA\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"e xsrIXxT  uUBYuXrM GB \"><!-- e xsrIXxT  uUBYuXrM GB  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Live The sad sight of dead swans, geese and ducks met Betsy Sallade-Farina when she woke up Thursday, Feb. 6, on her lake near the county line between Livingston and Washtenaw counties. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the chain of lakes all my life, and I\u2019ve never seen so many birds dead like that,\u201d said Sallade-Farina, [&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-8693","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\/8693","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=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}