{"id":205334,"date":"2022-09-10T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=205334"},"modified":"2022-09-10T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T13:50:00","slug":"dolphin-porpoise-first-time-avian-flu-is-seen-in-cetaceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dolphin-porpoise-first-time-avian-flu-is-seen-in-cetaceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin, porpoise: First time, avian flu is seen in cetaceans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Dolphin, porpoise: First time, avian flu is seen in cetaceans<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 10th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bottlenose dolphin found dead in a Florida canal had tested positive for a highly virulent strain of bird flu known as <\/span><b>Eurasian H5N1.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, officials had also reported that they had found the same type of avian influenza in a stranded porpoise in Sweden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the first two documented cases in cetaceans, a group of marine mammals that includes dolphins, porpoises and whales.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Eurasian H5N1?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eurasian H5N1 is a strain of bird flu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This flu has spread widely among North American and European birds and has affected an unusually broad array of species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The risk of transmission to humans remains low. But the spread of the virus to new species poses potential risks to wildlife and provides the virus with new chances to mutate and adapt to mammalian hosts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is H5N1 (Avian Influenza)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-h5n1-avian-influenza-its-symptoms-and-how-fatal-can-it-be\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDolphin, porpoise: First time, avian flu is seen in cetaceans\u201d published in Indian Express on 10th September 2022. What is the News? A bottlenose dolphin found dead in a Florida canal had tested positive for a highly virulent strain of bird flu known as Eurasian H5N1. Earlier,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dolphin-porpoise-first-time-avian-flu-is-seen-in-cetaceans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dolphin, porpoise: First time, avian flu is seen in cetaceans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-205334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855819},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}