{"id":78453,"date":"2025-10-13T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/78453\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:43:08","slug":"fota-wildlife-park-in-cork-to-close-temporarily-over-suspected-bird-flu-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/78453\/","title":{"rendered":"Fota Wildlife Park in Cork to close temporarily over suspected bird flu \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Fota Wildlife Park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\/\">Co Cork<\/a> is to close to the public on Tuesday and Wednesday due to suspected cases of bird flu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The wildlife park reported the suspected cases of avian influenza to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine\/\">Department of Agriculture<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A decision was then made to suspend public access to the park on Tuesday and the day after. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The park said further updates would be shared \u201cin due course\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Bird flu is a is a highly contagious viral disease that spreads among domestic poultry as well as pet birds and wild ones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cases of bird flu in people are very rare as it does not spread easily to humans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Earlier this month Irish bird keepers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/10\/05\/suspected-case-of-bird-flu-identified-near-omagh-in-co-tyrone\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/10\/05\/suspected-case-of-bird-flu-identified-near-omagh-in-co-tyrone\/\">urged by Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon<\/a> to \u201ctake strict precautions and exercise the highest standards of biosecurity\u201d, following a suspected case in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tyrone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tyrone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Co Tyrone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Heydon said the risk of avian influenza would increase during the winter. All poultry owners in the State are required to register their flocks with the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier this year, thousands of birds were culled and sanitation actions carried out at premises in Magherafelt, Co Derry, and at Cookstown, Pomeroy and Stewartstown, all Co Tyrone, where cases had been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork is to close to the public on Tuesday and Wednesday due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29828,51382,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-78453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-avian-influenza","tag-fota-wildlife-park","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}