{"id":28535,"date":"2025-11-23T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28535"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:04:17","slug":"us-records-second-human-bird-flu-death-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28535","title":{"rendered":"US records second human bird flu death of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A resident of Washington state has died after contracting a rare strain of bird flu previously only reported in animals, state health officials said &#8212; the second human fatality linked to the virus in the United States this year.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was only identified as &#8220;an older adult with underlying health conditions&#8221; and had been hospitalized since early this month, the Washington state department of health said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tests conducted by the University of Washington confirmed the patient was suffering from H5N5 avian influenza, the department said in a statement, calling it &#8220;the first recorded infection with this variant in a person globally.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Washington state has died after contracting a rare strain of bird flu previously only reported in animals, state health officials said &#8212; the second human fatality linked to the virus in the United States this year. The patient was only identified as &#8220;an older adult with underlying health conditions&#8221; and had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}