{"id":162754,"date":"2023-04-24T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-is-wiping-out-everything-in-numbers-weve-never-seen-before-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2023-04-24T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:01:58","slug":"the-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-is-wiping-out-everything-in-numbers-weve-never-seen-before-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-is-wiping-out-everything-in-numbers-weve-never-seen-before-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"The worst bird-flu outbreak in US history is \u2018wiping out everything in numbers we\u2019ve never seen before.\u2019 Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-is-wiping-out-everything-in-numbers-weve-never-seen-before-heres-what-you-need-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US is currently experiencing its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/spotlights\/2022-2023\/nearing-record-number-avian-influenza.htm#:~:text=Since%20early%202022%2C%20more%20than, outbreak%20that%20occurred%20in%202015.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst-ever outbreak of bird flu<\/a>, also known as avian influenza \u2014 and a new study has found that the strain could become endemic in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak is \u201cwiping out everything in numbers we\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d Jennifer Mullinax, an assistant professor of environmental science and technology at the University of Maryland, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-bird-flu-outbreak-wiping-out-everything-in-numbers-weve-never-seen-before-scientists-warn-12860762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told Sky News<\/a>. The new H5N1 strain has already killed over 58 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/us-begins-testing-bird-flu-vaccines-poultry-after-record-outbreak-2023-04-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US is no stranger to the impact of the disease, with the H5N8 strain having led to the culling of 50 million birds in 2015. But the new, more contagious strain is particularly affecting wild birds, Sky News reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is currently experiencing its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, also known as avian influenza \u2014 and a new study has found that the strain could become endemic in the country. The outbreak is \u201cwiping out everything in numbers we\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d Jennifer Mullinax, an assistant professor of environmental science and technology at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}