{"id":6018,"date":"2024-03-05T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:59:48","slug":"avian-flu-spreading-to-marine-mammals-grows-concern-of-potential-risk-to-humans-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/05\/avian-flu-spreading-to-marine-mammals-grows-concern-of-potential-risk-to-humans-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian flu spreading to marine mammals grows concern of potential risk to humans, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/avian-flu-spreading-h5n1-bird-flu-united-states\/\">CBS News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concern is growing about the avian flu now spreading to marine mammals and a new study says that it increases the potential risk to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The danger to humans is low right now, but as long as the avian flu is spreading to other animals, there&#8217;s a risk it could spread to people, which is why scientists say close surveillance and research is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dying elephant seals on the coast of western Argentina are linked to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/avian-flu-summary.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H5N1, the virus known as avian influenza.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been circulating in birds for decades. Last year&#8217;s sky-high egg prices were due to a 2022 outbreak that affected 58 million chickens in the United States alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers say there have been cases where the virus spreads from infected birds to mammals. Now, researchers fear it may be moving from one mammal to another.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"l vMjtcvvAZcU SIdGTlctsbB\">l vMjtcvvAZcU SIdGTlctsbB<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Concern is growing about the avian flu now spreading to marine mammals and a new study says that it increases the potential risk to humans. The danger to humans is low right now, but as long as the avian flu is spreading to other animals, there&#8217;s a risk it could spread to people, [&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-6018","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\/6018","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=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}