{"id":2390,"date":"2023-02-07T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:12:55","slug":"could-bird-flu-in-mink-signal-threat-of-a-human-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/07\/could-bird-flu-in-mink-signal-threat-of-a-human-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Could bird flu in mink signal threat of a human pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/scientists-concerned-spread-of-bird-flu-to-mink-signals-growing-threat-to-humans\/a-64605019\">DW<\/a>) A bird flu outbreak on a Spanish mink farm has alarmed scientists. The virus may be spreading for the first time from mammal to mammal \u2014 and could become a danger for humans.  It started in October 2022,\u00a0when several dead mink\u00a0were discovered on a farm in Galicia in northwestern Spain. Veterinarians initially blamed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/coronavirus-latest\/t-52104885\">coronavirus<\/a>. But\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.3.2300001\" target=\"_blank\">tests revealed<\/a>\u00a0that the highly pathogenic avian flu virus H5N1 was the culprit. To stop the spread of the dangerous pathogen, more than 50,000 mink\u00a0on the farm were killed.\u00a0 While farm workers themselves were not infected, the case remains a cause of concern for scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(DW) A bird flu outbreak on a Spanish mink farm has alarmed scientists. The virus may be spreading for the first time from mammal to mammal \u2014 and could become a danger for humans. It started in October 2022,\u00a0when several dead mink\u00a0were discovered on a farm in Galicia in northwestern Spain. Veterinarians initially blamed the\u00a0coronavirus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2391,"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":[37,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-07-at-11.12.22.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}