{"id":6590,"date":"2024-05-14T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T00:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2024-05-14T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T00:43:27","slug":"if-pigs-get-bird-flu-we-could-be-in-for-a-real-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/14\/if-pigs-get-bird-flu-we-could-be-in-for-a-real-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"If Pigs Get Bird Flu, We Could Be In for a Real Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-05-08\/how-can-bird-flu-spread-to-humans-through-pigs\">Bloomberg<\/a> H5N1 has already spread to an alarming number of mammals. If it reaches pigs,\u00a0it\u2019s more likely to mutate into something that could threaten humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bird flu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/25\/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outbreak among dairy cows<\/a>&nbsp;continues to generate alarm, despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/01\/health\/bird-flu-milk-cows.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reassuring news<\/a>&nbsp;that pasteurized milk is unlikely to infect anyone with H5N1. Scientists can\u2019t stop worrying about a nightmare scenario: that the virus will get into pigs and, from there, spark a human pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pigs \u201care the perfect vessels through which an even more virulent strain could emerge,\u201d said Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a May 2 briefing by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/event\/hybrid-dc-roundtable-cdc-response-spread-h5n1-avian-flu-dairy-cows?utm_source=sendupdate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Send%20Update&amp;utm_term=Thread_0-cd4fd940-bffd-ee11-a9b9-00505687a60f-638502519735679195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-05-08\/how-can-bird-flu-spread-to-humans-through-pigs\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg H5N1 has already spread to an alarming number of mammals. If it reaches pigs,\u00a0it\u2019s more likely to mutate into something that could threaten humans.\u00a0 The bird flu&nbsp;outbreak among dairy cows&nbsp;continues to generate alarm, despite&nbsp;reassuring news&nbsp;that pasteurized milk is unlikely to infect anyone with H5N1. Scientists can\u2019t stop worrying about a nightmare scenario: that the [&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-6590","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\/6590","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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}