{"id":2425,"date":"2023-02-08T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:00:13","slug":"bird-flu-outbreak-is-a-wake-up-call-for-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/08\/bird-flu-outbreak-is-a-wake-up-call-for-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Outbreak Is a Wake-Up Call for Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2023-02-08\/high-egg-prices-h1n5-bird-flu-outbreak-could-cause-bigger-problems\">Bloomberg<\/a>) The H1N5 virus has been rampaging through poultry farms and a Spanish mink facility.  Perhaps we can blame Covid fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00201-2\" target=\"_blank\">spread through mammals<\/a>\u00a0and is ominously appearing among wild and domesticated animals around the globe. In the past, the inability to spread from one mammal to another was the barrier that prevented bird flu, H5N1 \u2014\u00a0which has a 50% fatality rate in humans \u2014\u00a0from becoming a human pandemic. It&#8217;s not clear this version, which spread through minks, would be easily transmitted in people, but it has made a step in a dangerous direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unthinkable to consider lockdowns or mask mandates over some new disease, which is why it\u2019s better to take simpler, less costly action early. What matters now is surveillance among farmed animals and giving up particularly dangerous practices. Maybe we just can\u2019t have mink coats and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/170375\/egg-prices-shortage-frightening-cost-industrial-farms-bird-flu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cheap eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"XqlJKiWMj Galf UdNktvZ\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The H1N5 virus has been rampaging through poultry farms and a Spanish mink facility. Perhaps we can blame Covid fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to\u00a0spread through mammals\u00a0and is ominously appearing among wild and domesticated animals around the [&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-2425","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\/2425","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=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}