{"id":80813,"date":"2026-11-02T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/washington-state-resident-dies-from-severe-illness-after-contracting-bird-flu\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:55:13","slug":"washington-state-resident-dies-from-severe-illness-after-contracting-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/washington-state-resident-dies-from-severe-illness-after-contracting-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington state resident dies from \u2018severe illness\u2019 after contracting bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Individual, who also had underlying conditions, was hospitalized after being exposed to avian influenza<\/p>\n<p>A Washington state resident has died after being hospitalized with \u201csevere illness\u201d after contracting bird flu, local health officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The individual was exposed to avian influenza, also known as bird flu, at a dairy with infected cattle in Yakima county, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimacounty.us\/2417\/Media-Releases#docaccess-a54c817ca8cdbdcf2bec342f57bbdebb\">news release<\/a>. The person was subsequently hospitalized with severe illness and died on Sunday. Health officials said that the individual, whose identity had not been released, had underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/02\/bird-flu-death-washington\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual, who also had underlying conditions, was hospitalized after being exposed to avian influenza A Washington state resident has died after being hospitalized with \u201csevere illness\u201d after contracting bird flu, local health officials said on Sunday. The individual was exposed to avian influenza, also known as bird flu, at a dairy with infected cattle in &#8230; <a title=\"Washington state resident dies from \u2018severe illness\u2019 after contracting bird flu\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/washington-state-resident-dies-from-severe-illness-after-contracting-bird-flu\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Washington state resident dies from \u2018severe illness\u2019 after contracting bird flu\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80813","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}