{"id":2410,"date":"2023-02-07T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:04:02","slug":"heres-why-experts-are-concerned-about-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/07\/heres-why-experts-are-concerned-about-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Experts Are Concerned About Bird Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103000\">MedPageToday<\/a>)  What appears to be mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) on a mink farm in Spain has caught the attention of infectious disease epidemiologists around the world. A paper\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.3.2300001\" target=\"_blank\">published in\u00a0<em>Eurosurveillance<\/em>\u00a0last monthopens in a new tab or window<\/a>\u00a0detailed an H5N1 outbreak among farmed minks in the Galicia region of Spain in October 2022. Montserrat Ag\u00fcero, of Spain&#8217;s agricultural ministry, and colleagues suspected that transmission occurred between the animals based on &#8220;the increasing number of infected animals identified after the confirmation of the disease, and the progression of the infection from the initially affected area to the entire holding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"E bTWwQFPlTCSHbXMPyDC\">E bTWwQFPlTCSHbXMPyDC<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPageToday) What appears to be mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) on a mink farm in Spain has caught the attention of infectious disease epidemiologists around the world. A paper\u00a0published in\u00a0Eurosurveillance\u00a0last monthopens in a new tab or window\u00a0detailed an H5N1 outbreak among farmed minks in the Galicia region of Spain in October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"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\/2410","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=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}