{"id":6401,"date":"2024-04-23T19:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2024-04-23T19:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:46:32","slug":"genetic-analysis-reveals-h5n1-flu-virus-outbreak-in-cows-likely-started-earlier-than-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/04\/23\/genetic-analysis-reveals-h5n1-flu-virus-outbreak-in-cows-likely-started-earlier-than-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic analysis reveals H5N1 flu virus outbreak in cows likely started earlier than thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/23\/h5n1-bird-flu-genetic-analysis\/\">STAT Helen Branswell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows in the United States has likely been going on for months longer than was previously realized, and has probably spread more widely across the country than the confirmed outbreaks would imply, according to an analysis of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/21\/usda-releases-h5n1-bird-flu-genetic-data-eagerly-awaited-by-scientists\/\">genetic sequences that were released<\/a>\u00a0Sunday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The genetic data point to a single spillover event that probably occurred in late 2023, Michael Worobey, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Arizona, told STAT on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe bad news is it looks like this is well entrenched and has been in cattle for a long time and \u2026 probably very, very, very widespread,\u201d said Worobey, who worked on the analysis with a number of scientists in the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He suggested the outbreak needs to be taken more seriously than it has been until now, especially given the amount of exposure humans have with cattle. \u201cWe need to just study the hell out of it for starters \u2026 and see if we can close the gap on what is happening and what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/23\/h5n1-bird-flu-genetic-analysis\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Helen Branswell The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows in the United States has likely been going on for months longer than was previously realized, and has probably spread more widely across the country than the confirmed outbreaks would imply, according to an analysis of\u00a0genetic sequences that were released\u00a0Sunday by the U.S. Department [&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-6401","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\/6401","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=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}