{"id":10017,"date":"2025-07-30T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10017"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:33:18","slug":"where-did-bird-flu-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/30\/where-did-bird-flu-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Bird Flu Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bird-flu-is-out-of-the-news-but-still-circulating\/\">American Scientific<\/a> Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.\u2014in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn\u2019t disappeared. For months,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/bird-flu\/\">bird flu<\/a>\u00a0was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/how-bird-flu-went-from-devastating-poultry-farms-to-infecting-dairy-herds\/\">herds of dairy cattle and leading to massive culls of poultry flocks<\/a>, concerning infections in humans and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/eggs-hit-by-bird-flu-crisis-as-farmers-loose-flocks-to-virus\/\">grocery store aisles where nary an egg could be found<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nearly as quickly as bird flu took hold in daily conversations, it disappeared from them and most people\u2019s thoughts\u2014making it easy for the public to think avian influenza\u2019s threat had waned. Far from it, experts say. \u201cThe flu is still there, and we just don\u2019t know enough about it,\u201d says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What made the virus apparently fade away\u2014and what does that mean for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/creating-bird-flu-vaccines-for-humans-at-a-biosecure-laboratory\/\">future of bird flu<\/a>?<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"xIInlu k\"><!-- xIInlu k --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Scientific Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.\u2014in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn\u2019t disappeared. For months,\u00a0bird flu\u00a0was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of\u00a0herds of dairy cattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10018,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions\/10018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}