{"id":9497,"date":"2025-05-20T20:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:37:01","slug":"more-than-2-million-hens-in-arizona-flock-hit-by-avian-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/20\/more-than-2-million-hens-in-arizona-flock-hit-by-avian-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 2 million hens in Arizona flock hit by avian flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattagnet.com\/poultry-meat\/diseases-health\/avian-influenza\/news\/15746516\/more-than-2-million-hens-in-arizona-flock-hit-by-avian-flu\">Watt Poultry<\/a> Nearly 2.26 million commercial laying hens in Arizona have been lost to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/commercial-backyard-flocks\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service<\/a>&nbsp;(APHIS) reported that the presence of the virus was confirmed in Maricopa County on May 19. The flock included 2,258,100 hens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instances of HPAI infections in commercial poultry flocks have slowed down in recent weeks, with the only other instance in May being confirmed in a commercial meat turkey flock in Hutchinson County, South Dakota. The South Dakota case was confirmed on May 13 and involved 30,900 birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattagnet.com\/poultry-meat\/diseases-health\/avian-influenza\/news\/15746516\/more-than-2-million-hens-in-arizona-flock-hit-by-avian-flu\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watt Poultry Nearly 2.26 million commercial laying hens in Arizona have been lost to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)&nbsp;Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service&nbsp;(APHIS) reported that the presence of the virus was confirmed in Maricopa County on May 19. The flock included 2,258,100 hens. Instances of HPAI infections [&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-9497","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\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}