{"id":78384,"date":"2017-01-26T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6842bfdc6f12d129139606d6b1ecb039"},"modified":"2017-01-26T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:15:01","slug":"press-release-avian-flu-confirmed-at-a-farm-near-boston-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78384","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Avian flu confirmed at a farm near Boston, Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK\u2019s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed H5N8 avian flu at a turkey rearing farm near Boston, Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p>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 19,500 birds. A number have died and the remaining live birds at the premises will be humanely culled. A full investigation is under way to determine the source of the infection.<\/p>\n<p>Public 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 near Boston, Lincolnshire<\/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\/78384"}],"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=78384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78386,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78384\/revisions\/78386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}