{"id":493,"date":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/polar-bear-dies-from-bird-flu-as-h5n1-spreads-across-globe\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","slug":"polar-bear-dies-from-bird-flu-as-h5n1-spreads-across-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/polar-bear-dies-from-bird-flu-as-h5n1-spreads-across-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar bear dies from bird flu as H5N1 spreads across globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current outbreak, which started in 2021, is estimated to have killed millions of wild birds and thousands of mammals globally <\/p>\n<p>A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The death <a href=\"https:\/\/dec.alaska.gov\/eh\/vet\/announcements\/avian-influenza-outbreaks\/\">was confirmed<\/a> in December by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. \u201cThis is the first polar bear case reported, for anywhere,\u201d Dr Bob Gerlach, Alaska\u2019s state veterinarian, <a href=\"https:\/\/alaskabeacon.com\/2023\/12\/30\/avian-influenza-death-of-alaska-polar-bear-is-a-global-first-and-a-sign-of-the-virus-persistence\/\">told the Alaska Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/jan\/02\/polar-bear-dies-from-bird-flu-age-of-extinction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current outbreak, which started in 2021, is estimated to have killed millions of wild birds and thousands of mammals globally A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet. The death was confirmed in December by the Alaska Department of &#8230; <a title=\"Polar bear dies from bird flu as H5N1 spreads across globe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/polar-bear-dies-from-bird-flu-as-h5n1-spreads-across-globe\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Polar bear dies from bird flu as H5N1 spreads across globe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}