{"id":61607,"date":"2020-02-11T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61607"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:36:10","slug":"germany-reports-outbreak-of-h5n8-bird-flu-in-backyard-poultry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61607","title":{"rendered":"Germany reports outbreak of H5N8 bird flu in backyard poultry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/74565\/760x480\/298225690-highres-farm-data.jpg\" alt=\"The virus killed 44 birds out of a flock of 69 in Bretzfeld, in the Baden-Wurttemberg region, the Paris-based OIE said\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;Germany has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in a backyard in the southwestern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus killed 44 birds out of a flock of 69 in Bretzfeld, in the Baden-Wurttemberg region, the Paris-based OIE said, citing a report from Germany&#8217;s food and agriculture ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All poultry and captive birds have been culled and safely disposed of on Feb&nbsp;7, 2020. No poultry, poultry products or captive birds have been dispatched,&#8221; it said in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A case of H5N8 bird flu had been confirmed in a wild bird in the eastern German state of Brandenburg in January but no birds on farms were involved, the ministry had then said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;Germany has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in a backyard in the southwestern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said. The virus killed 44 birds out of a flock of 69 in Bretzfeld, in the Baden-Wurttemberg region, the Paris-based OIE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}