{"id":121112,"date":"2024-08-25T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T12:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/odisha-culls-birds-after-avian-flu-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T12:06:41","slug":"odisha-culls-birds-after-avian-flu-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/odisha-culls-birds-after-avian-flu-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha culls birds after Avian flu outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1279\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-112782110,imgsize-34368.cms?resize=1279,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Odisha culls birds after Avian flu outbreak\" title=\"Odisha culls birds after Avian flu outbreak\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"10\">Odisha has culled more than a thousand chickens after a positive test for the highly pathogenic <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/h5n1-strain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H5N1 strain<\/a> of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/avian-influenza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avian influenza<\/a>, or <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/bird-flu\" rel=\"noopener\">bird flu<\/a>, a state government official told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1--> The epicentre of the outbreak was in the Puri district, about 19 miles from the state capital Bhubaneswar, and follows the recent death of 1,800 birds at a local <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/poultry-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poultry farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The work is ongoing. We are going to cull about 20,000 birds,&#8221; Additional Director of Disease Control Dr. Jagannath Nanda told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> The H5N1 strain is considered highly pathogenic and can also be transmitted to animals such as pigs, horses, large cats, dogs, and occasionally humans.<\/p>\n<p>The spread of the virus is a concern for governments and the poultry industry due to the devastation it can cause to flocks, the possibility of trade restrictions and the risk of human transmission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/odisha-culls-birds-after-avian-flu-outbreak\/articleshow\/112782110.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha has culled more than a thousand chickens after a positive test for the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, a state government official told Reuters on Sunday. The epicentre of the outbreak was in the Puri district, about 19 miles from the state capital Bhubaneswar, and follows the recent death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-112782110,imgsize-34368.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[39985,55138,24294,24299,1449,98529,22771,98528,4507,21678,55141],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121114,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121112\/revisions\/121114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}