{"id":10063,"date":"2025-08-13T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:46:22","slug":"bird-flu-on-dairy-farms-may-be-airborne-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/bird-flu-on-dairy-farms-may-be-airborne-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bird-flu-could-be-spreading-through-the-air-on-dairy-farms-preliminary-study\/\">Scientific American<\/a> Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms. The H5N1 avian influenza virus can now be found not only in milk and on milking equipment but also in farm wastewater and in the air, say researchers who have been trying to figure out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/how-bird-flu-went-from-devastating-poultry-farms-to-infecting-dairy-herds\/\">how the virus spreads on dairy farms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers identified the virus in both large and small aerosol particles in the air on farms affected by bird flu in California, according to a new preprint paper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2025.07.31.666798v2\">posted on the biology server bioRxiv<\/a>. \u201cThere is a lot of H5N1 virus on these farms,\u201d says Seema Lakdawala, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine and senior author of the new study, which has yet to go through scientific peer review. \u201cIt is everywhere. We need to be expanding biosafety measures, biosecurity measures and trying to control where the virus is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The finding\u2014that the virus is \u201ceverywhere\u201d\u2014fits with what has been seen in previously published work, says Richard Webby, who studies host-microbe interactions at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital. \u201cIt\u2019s a ridiculously contaminated environment,\u201d Webby says.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms. The H5N1 avian influenza virus can now be found not only in milk and on milking equipment but also in farm wastewater and in the air, say researchers who have been trying [&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-10063","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\/10063","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=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10064,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions\/10064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}