{"id":6594,"date":"2024-05-14T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2024-05-14T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:12:11","slug":"bird-flu-keeps-rewriting-the-textbooks-its-why-scientists-are-unsettled-by-the-u-s-dairy-cattle-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/14\/bird-flu-keeps-rewriting-the-textbooks-its-why-scientists-are-unsettled-by-the-u-s-dairy-cattle-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It\u2019s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/05\/09\/bird-flu-upends-avian-influenza-dogma\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ryyWXUzQFhZLs1ByA09xun9OeapT9RT6ATJd3Ll7Bc6ueUoqRy9Cr0f4_aem_Afs-tFzsT5BuKlutuQ5AiW3G14cXFso07QsQx-c98fn0F6q2eycxnOxPWFXz4Qo1yJSMa2lb7w59fyg-P-eGnsTC\">STAT<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked a fever, and started to cough. Six days later, he was hospitalized; six days after that, he died of acute respiratory distress caused by viral pneumonia. Testing showed the toddler, who\u2019d had contact with sick chickens before becoming ill,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/00050459.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had been infected with H5N1 bird flu.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His death was the first attributed to a bird flu virus, and since then, dozens more young children across a number of countries have died from this virus, H5N1. In fact, in the weeks that followed the boy\u2019s death, 17 other children in Hong Kong contracted the virus and five more died. It was a tragedy \u2014 and a profound shock for the scientists who studied influenza. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/05\/09\/bird-flu-upends-avian-influenza-dogma\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ryyWXUzQFhZLs1ByA09xun9OeapT9RT6ATJd3Ll7Bc6ueUoqRy9Cr0f4_aem_Afs-tFzsT5BuKlutuQ5AiW3G14cXFso07QsQx-c98fn0F6q2eycxnOxPWFXz4Qo1yJSMa2lb7w59fyg-P-eGnsTC\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT wenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked a fever, and started to cough. Six days later, he was hospitalized; six days after that, he died of acute respiratory distress caused by viral pneumonia. Testing showed the toddler, who\u2019d had contact with sick chickens before becoming ill,&nbsp;had [&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-6594","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\/6594","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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}