{"id":248576,"date":"2020-03-16T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=248576"},"modified":"2020-03-16T06:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:01:31","slug":"dar-confirms-bird-flu-detection-at-quail-farm-in-nueva-ecija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/16\/dar-confirms-bird-flu-detection-at-quail-farm-in-nueva-ecija\/","title":{"rendered":"Dar confirms bird flu detection at quail farm in Nueva Ecija"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248273\" style=\"width: 3300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/42942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248273\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/42942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3300\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/42942.jpg 3300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/42942-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/42942-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/42942-1024x745.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Agriculture Secretary William Dar in Quezon City on Monday (Feb. 24, 2020). (PNA photo by Oliver Marquez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday confirmed the detection of a highly-pathogenic H5N6 avian influenza in a quail farm in Jaen, Nueva Ecija.<\/p>\n<p>DA Secretary William Dar said live sample quails tested positive for avian influenza after it was reported that 1,500 out of 15,000 quails died in the farm at Barangay Ulanin-Pitak.<\/p>\n<p>Dar said a total of 12,000 quails have been surgically stamped out, noting that cleaning and disinfection procedures were implemented accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>He said immediate disease control measures were conducted to mitigate the spread of H5N6.<\/p>\n<p>While humans can be infected by the virus through contact with secretions, Dar said there is no reported case of human infection in the country so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The highly-pathogenic avian influenza is a disease of poultry that can affect humans. However, the H5N6 which affected the Philippines, has not affected humans in the country,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday confirmed the detection of a highly-pathogenic H5N6 avian influenza in a quail &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":248273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248577,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248576\/revisions\/248577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}