{"id":6306,"date":"2024-04-09T21:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2024-04-09T21:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:37:45","slug":"whats-happening-with-dairy-cows-and-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/04\/09\/whats-happening-with-dairy-cows-and-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Happening With Dairy Cows and Bird Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/whats-happening-with-dairy-cows-and-bird-flu\">Johns Hopkins<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The H5N1 strain of avian influenza\u2014commonly known as bird flu\u2014has been circulating among wild migratory birds for the past two years, with substantial spillover into poultry farms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what&#8217;s sparking concern among scientists and public health officials alike is the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows and the subsequent infection of a dairy farm employee\u2014the second person in America ever documented to be infected with H5N1. The virus has now spread to 16 herds&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/livestock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in six states<\/a>&nbsp;according to the USDA, fueling concerns about potential further transmission to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Q&amp;A, adapted from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/743-what-you-need-to-know-about-h5n1-the-bird-flu\/id1501336958?i=1000651760514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">April 8 episode of Public Health On Call<\/a>, Stephanie Desmon speaks with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/3059\/meghan-frost-davis\">Meghan Davis<\/a>, DVM, PhD \u201912, MPH \u201908, associate professor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/3059\/meghan-frost-davis\">Environmental Health and Engineering<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/1972\/andrew-stanley-pekosz\">Andrew Pekosz<\/a>, PhD, professor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/1972\/andrew-stanley-pekosz\">Molecular Microbiology and Immunology<\/a>, about H5N1\u2019s jump between species, what that means for the virus\u2019s pandemic potential, and what the appearance of the virus in dairy means for consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/whats-happening-with-dairy-cows-and-bird-flu\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins The H5N1 strain of avian influenza\u2014commonly known as bird flu\u2014has been circulating among wild migratory birds for the past two years, with substantial spillover into poultry farms.&nbsp; But what&#8217;s sparking concern among scientists and public health officials alike is the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows and the subsequent infection of [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/6306","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=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}