{"id":8710,"date":"2025-02-11T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:06:30","slug":"bird-flu-suspected-in-deaths-of-ducks-and-wild-birds-at-n-y-c-zoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/11\/bird-flu-suspected-in-deaths-of-ducks-and-wild-birds-at-n-y-c-zoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Suspected in Deaths of Ducks and Wild Birds at N.Y.C. Zoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/08\/nyregion\/bird-flu-bronx-queens-zoo.html\">NY Times<\/a> Three ducks died of the disease at the Queens Zoo, while three more ducks and nine wild birds that died at the Bronx Zoo were being tested for the virus, according to the parks\u2019 operator. Three ducks at the Queens Zoo died because of bird flu, and as many as 12 more birds at the Bronx Zoo that died after possible exposure were being tested for the virus, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, the nonprofit that operates the parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths and possible exposures at the Queens Zoo and the Bronx Zoo, one of the largest and most well-known zoos in the United States, come as an outbreak of bird flu has spread across the country, sickening chickens and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/health\/bird-flu-h5n1.html\">dairy cattle<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/24\/business\/egg-shortage-prices.html\">driving up<\/a>&nbsp;the price of eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/07\/nyregion\/nyc-bird-flu-markets.html\">live bird markets in New York City<\/a>\u00a0and a few surrounding counties to close temporarily in an effort to stem the spread of the virus. \u201cSafeguarding public health is all about being proactive,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/08\/nyregion\/bird-flu-bronx-queens-zoo.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ZwW ksOrx   CJWU\">ZwW ksOrx   CJWU<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times Three ducks died of the disease at the Queens Zoo, while three more ducks and nine wild birds that died at the Bronx Zoo were being tested for the virus, according to the parks\u2019 operator. Three ducks at the Queens Zoo died because of bird flu, and as many as 12 more birds [&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-8710","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\/8710","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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}