{"id":6801,"date":"2024-06-11T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T02:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T02:11:57","slug":"the-dairy-industry-must-act-faster-to-keep-h5n1-from-starting-a-human-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/11\/the-dairy-industry-must-act-faster-to-keep-h5n1-from-starting-a-human-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dairy Industry Must Act Faster to Keep H5N1 from Starting a Human Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-dairy-industry-must-act-faster-to-keep-h5n1-bird-flu-from-starting-a\/\">Scientific American<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/how-big-a-threat-is-bird-flu\/\">mystery disease<\/a>&nbsp;was ripping through the cattle in the Texas panhandle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early March, roughly three weeks after veterinarians in the panhandle spoke about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/slow-response-to-bird-flu-in-cows-worries-scientists\/\">first illnesses<\/a>, one of us (Russo) texted a couple of veterinary colleagues in the thick of the outbreak a recent publication on how H5N1 bird flu was killing unusual numbers of sea lions throughout South America. The dairy cow symptoms\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/h5n1-bird-flu-isnt-a-human-pandemic-yet\/\">sounded like influenza<\/a>\u00a0to me. One of those colleagues quickly replied. Over the next few days, he and I texted back and forth in a flurry about whether the mystery cow disease might be highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more widely known as bird flu. When I asked about wild birds, this veterinarian noted that there were \u201ca ton of dead pigeons\u201d around the cattle pens and that now he was starting to second-guess his initial suspicion of poison as the cause. I told him to get the cows tested for HPAI, even if the lab laughed at him. As a dairy-poultry veterinarian, I also asked for pictures of the insides of some of the pigeons, trying to determine if I could observe the lesions characteristic of this kind of avian influenza.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American A&nbsp;mystery disease&nbsp;was ripping through the cattle in the Texas panhandle. In early March, roughly three weeks after veterinarians in the panhandle spoke about the\u00a0first illnesses, one of us (Russo) texted a couple of veterinary colleagues in the thick of the outbreak a recent publication on how H5N1 bird flu was killing unusual numbers [&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-6801","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\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}