{"id":10224,"date":"2025-09-03T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:04:38","slug":"lessons-from-hpai-in-dairy-cattle-preparing-for-the-next-disease-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/lessons-from-hpai-in-dairy-cattle-preparing-for-the-next-disease-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from HPAI in dairy cattle: Preparing for the next disease outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocj.com\/2025\/09\/lessons-from-hpai-in-dairy-cattle-preparing-for-the-next-disease-outbreak\/\">Ohio Country Journal<\/a> In 2017, as I was preparing for the board exam for the College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, I spent long days buried in textbooks and long evenings in small-group discussions about hypothetical disease outbreaks.&nbsp; These tabletop scenarios covered everything from foot-and-mouth disease to zoonotic threats, and one in particular still sticks with me: a SARS-like coronavirus spreading rapidly across the globe.&nbsp; Our group debated control measures, tracing the possible path of infection, and brainstorming how to slow it.&nbsp; We quickly ran into a grim reality: limiting human movement enough to meaningfully contain such a disease would be extremely difficult.&nbsp; Our best hope, we concluded, would be the rapid development of an effective vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, it was just an exercise, but within a few short years, that \u201cwhat if\u201d became a \u201cright now,\u201d as COVID-19 unfolded in real life and tested the world\u2019s ability to respond.&nbsp; Now, with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak in dairy cattle, we are facing a different kind of challenge, one that is exposing specific weaknesses in how our industry handles novel disease threats.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Country Journal In 2017, as I was preparing for the board exam for the College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, I spent long days buried in textbooks and long evenings in small-group discussions about hypothetical disease outbreaks.&nbsp; These tabletop scenarios covered everything from foot-and-mouth disease to zoonotic threats, and one in particular still sticks with [&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-10224","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\/10224","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=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}