{"id":415342,"date":"2026-01-17T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415342\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:00:10","slug":"three-cases-of-bird-flu-found-in-town-and-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415342\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cases of bird flu found in town and park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three cases of bird flu has been detected in wildfowl in Bedford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bedford Borough Council said avian influenza had been found in one swan and one goose on the town&#8217;s embankment and one bird at Priory Park by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Public information posters have been put up in areas where the infected birds were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It has advised people to keep to the footpaths, to keep dogs on leads and to not touch or pick up any sick or dead birds.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The council also warned people not to touch wild bird feathers or surfaces contaminated with wild bird droppings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It asked anyone to report any dead wild birds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/report-dead-wild-birds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:to DEFRA online;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">to DEFRA online<\/a> or to call 03459 33 55 77.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjf099?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCBedsHertsBucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbc3cr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBC3cr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated internet links<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three cases of bird flu has been detected in wildfowl in Bedford. Bedford Borough Council said avian influenza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[174522,159512,5650,49,48,12366,84,100511],"class_list":["post-415342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bedford-borough-council","tag-bird-droppings","tag-bird-flu","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-department","tag-health","tag-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415342","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=415342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}