{"id":2252,"date":"2023-01-24T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T21:50:59","slug":"an-unprecedented-pandemic-of-avian-flu-is-wreaking-havoc-on-the-u-s-poultry-industry-humans-may-be-at-risk-too-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/24\/an-unprecedented-pandemic-of-avian-flu-is-wreaking-havoc-on-the-u-s-poultry-industry-humans-may-be-at-risk-too-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018unprecedented pandemic of avian flu\u2019 is wreaking havoc on the U.S. poultry industry. Humans may be at risk too, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2023\/01\/23\/unprescendented-pandemic-avian-bird-flu-h5n1-us-united-states-poultry-industry-peril-humans-risk-spanish-flu\/\">Fortune<\/a>) The H5N1 strain of avian flu responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of birds in the U.S. in recent months, and countless more worldwide, poses an existential threat to the poultry industry in the U.S.\u2014and a potentially widespread human health threat, experts say. The strain\u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/communication-resources\/bird-flu-origin-infographic.html#:~:text=In%201996%2C%20highly%20pathogenic%20avian,6%20deaths)%20in%20Hong%20Kong.\" target=\"_blank\">first identified in domestic waterfowl in China in 1996<\/a>\u2014is behind nearly 58 million U.S. bird deaths in the past year. These deaths have occurred both directly due to the virus and indirectly, when flocks are culled to curb further exposure,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/data-map-commercial.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. The virus has a near 100% fatality rate among birds, killing most infected within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fortune) The H5N1 strain of avian flu responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of birds in the U.S. in recent months, and countless more worldwide, poses an existential threat to the poultry industry in the U.S.\u2014and a potentially widespread human health threat, experts say. The strain\u2014first identified in domestic waterfowl in China in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-24-at-11.50.03-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}