{"id":6699,"date":"2024-05-29T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2024-05-29T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:23:14","slug":"new-study-launches-following-the-discovery-of-a-second-case-of-avian-influenza-spreading-from-cows-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/29\/new-study-launches-following-the-discovery-of-a-second-case-of-avian-influenza-spreading-from-cows-to-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"New study launches following the discovery of a second case of avian influenza spreading from cows to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-05-discovery-case-avian-influenza-cows.html\">Medical Express<\/a> Vaccination remains the most effective strategy for avian influenza prevention and control in humans, despite varying vaccine efficacy across strains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the authors of a new review which delves into existing research into bird flu vaccines for humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/21645515.2024.2347019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Human Vaccines &amp; Immunotherapeutics<\/em><\/a>, the results of the paper are particularly timely following news on 22 May that the bird flu strain H5N1 had once again, for a second time, jumped from cattle in America to a human\u2014prompting fears of subsequent human-to-human infection, with possible critical consequences.Instances of the avian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/influenza\/\">influenza<\/a>\u00a0were first recognized in US cattle in March. Since then, this strain has mainly spread from cow-to-cow and scientists have discovered very high levels of virus in raw milk (pasteurized milk is safe, having shown viral RNA but not infectious virus). To date, two people, however, are known to have contracted the bird flu virus. Both patients\u2014US farmers\u2014only reported eye symptoms and with treatment they made a full recovery.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Express Vaccination remains the most effective strategy for avian influenza prevention and control in humans, despite varying vaccine efficacy across strains. That&#8217;s according to the authors of a new review which delves into existing research into bird flu vaccines for humans. Published in the journal\u00a0Human Vaccines &amp; Immunotherapeutics, the results of the paper are [&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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"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\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}