{"id":1273,"date":"2025-05-15T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:12:58","slug":"first-severe-bird-flu-case-hits-the-us-state-of-emergency-declared-in-another-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"First Severe Bird Flu Case Hits the US \u2014 State of Emergency Declared in Another Area\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>this is the first US bird flu case linked to a backyard flock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus (\u201cH5N1 bird flu\u201d) in the US<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDC confirmed the presence of the virus on December 13, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USGS Biologist Science Tech Brooke Hill releases a Western Sandpiper after testing it for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Sonoma, California, on August 16, 2006 | Source: Getty Images<br>USGS Biologist Science Tech Brooke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hill releases a Western Sandpiper after testing it for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Sonoma,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation is underway to identify the source of an H5N1 bird flu infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it has been confirmed that the patient had contact with ill and deceased birds from backyard flocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the first reported US case of H5N1 bird flu connected to backyard flock exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, there have been 37 cases connected to dairy herds,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 associated with poultry farms and culling operations,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and 2 cases where the source of exposure remains unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is the first US bird flu case linked to a backyard flock. A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytrusted88.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}