{"id":111222,"date":"2025-09-01T05:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111222\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:26:43","slug":"uk-confirms-h5n1-bird-flu-outbreak-in-southwestern-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111222\/","title":{"rendered":"UK confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak in southwestern England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3709a32df62534d341b02d5970566713.jpg\"\/>A person holds a test tube labeled &#8220;Bird Flu&#8221;, in this picture illustration, Jan 14, 2023. (PHOTO \/ REUTERS)<\/p>\n<p>The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus was confirmed in poultry at a premises in southwestern England, the UK government said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyhk.com\/hk\/article\/610569#H5N1:-New-Zealand-strengthens-preparedness-2025-04-28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H5N1: New Zealand strengthens preparedness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 3 km (about 2 miles) protection zone and 10 km surveillance zone have been declared around the premises near Exminster in Devon, the government said, adding that &#8220;all poultry on the premises will be humanely culled.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person holds a test tube labeled &#8220;Bird Flu&#8221;, in this picture illustration, Jan 14, 2023. (PHOTO \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5650,49,48,62870,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-111222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-bird-flu","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-h5n1","12":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}