{"id":78291,"date":"2017-01-24T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=35920641aa0117886d5061e153a6b129"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:57:06","slug":"news-story-avian-flu-confirmed-at-a-farm-in-preston-lancashire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78291","title":{"rendered":"News story: Avian flu confirmed at a farm in Wyre, Lancashire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Article amended to clarify the location of the outbreak. <\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK\u2019s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed H5N8 avian flu in a flock of farmed breeding pheasants at a premises in Wyre, Lancashire. A 3km Protection Zone and a 10km Surveillance Zone have been put in place around the infected premises to limit the risk of the disease spreading.<\/p>\n<p>The flock is estimated to contain approximately 10,000 birds. A number have died and the remaining live birds at the premises are being humanely culled. A full investigation is under way to determine the source of the infection.<br \/>\nPublic Health England advise that the risk to public health from the virus is very low and the Food Standards Agency is clear that bird flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/avian-influenza-bird-flu-in-winter-2016-to-2017\">Read the latest advice and information on avian flu in the UK<\/a>, including actions to reduce the risk of the disease spreading, advice for anyone who keeps poultry or captive birds and details of previous cases. Journalists with queries should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs\/about\/media-enquiries\">contact Defra press office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed H5N8 avian flu at a premises in Wyre, Lancashire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78301,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78291\/revisions\/78301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}