{"id":7909,"date":"2015-05-07T07:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2015-05-07T07:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:02:18","slug":"bird-flu-has-already-killed-more-than-20-million-turkeys-and-chickens-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7909","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Has Already Killed More Than 20 MILLION Turkeys And Chickens In The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/bird-flu-has-already-killed-more-than-20-million-turkeys-and-chickens-in-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\">Bird Flu Has Already Killed More Than 20 MILLION Turkeys And Chickens In The United States<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Are you prepared to go without turkey this Thanksgiving?\u00a0 Yes, it might actually get that bad.\u00a0 So far, the worst outbreak of bird flu in U.S. history has claimed the lives of more than 20\u00a0<strong>million<\/strong>\u00a0turkeys and chickens, and the pandemic continues to rage wildly out of control.\u00a0 Once one bird becomes infected, this particular strain of the virus is so virulent that it can virtually wipe out an entire flock\u00a0<a title=\"in just a matter of days\" href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/is-the-u-s-food-supply-cursed\" target=\"_blank\">in just a matter of days<\/a>.\u00a0 At this point, scientists think that this virus is being spread by wild birds, but they have no idea how it is getting inside barns and other enclosed facilities so easily.\u00a0 Considering how important turkey, chicken and eggs are to our food supply, it is quite alarming that scientists don\u2019t really understand what is going on.\u00a0 If this bird flu outbreak is not brought under control, how many birds will eventually die?\u00a0 Right now, it is already in the tens of millions.\u00a0 Could the total eventually reach into the hundreds of millions?<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota is the top producer of turkeys in the United States, and Iowa is the top producer of eggs, and that is why it is so alarming that both of these states\u00a0<a title=\"are right at the heart of this current outbreak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/05\/05\/us-health-birdflu-funds-exclusive-idUSKBN0NQ1VZ20150505\" target=\"_blank\">are right at the heart of this current outbreak<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virulent H5 avian influenza strains\u00a0<strong>have spread to 14 states in five months and affected about 24 million birds<\/strong>\u00a0so far, mostly egg-laying hens and turkeys, according to USDA.<\/p>\n<p>That tally is expected to grow, as U.S. authorities confirm pending cases. The outbreak, which is also affecting two Canadian provinces, shows little sign of slowing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird Flu Has Already Killed More Than 20 MILLION Turkeys And Chickens In The United States Are you prepared to go without turkey this Thanksgiving?\u00a0 Yes, it might actually get that bad.\u00a0 So far, the worst outbreak of bird flu in U.S. history has claimed the lives of more than 20\u00a0million\u00a0turkeys and chickens, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5234,5235,5237,928,5238,5236],"class_list":["post-7909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bird-flu","tag-bird-flu-virus","tag-chickens","tag-food-supply","tag-turkeys","tag-viral-infection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}