{"id":6880,"date":"2024-06-19T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2024-06-19T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:01:16","slug":"can-we-prevent-a-bird-flu-pandemic-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/19\/can-we-prevent-a-bird-flu-pandemic-in-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we prevent a bird flu pandemic in humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/bird-flu-pandemic\/\">Popular Science<\/a> Here\u2019s how experts say we should be mitigating the risk of H5N1 human outbreaks. highly pathogenic subtype of avian influenza (or bird flu), known as H5N1 is spreading among animals worldwide. For the past couple of decades, global health agencies have kept tabs on the virus, which is most well known for decimating poultry flocks and infecting wild birds, while mammalian and human cases have been rare.\u00a0 Yet the current spate of outbreaks, first detected in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/avian-timeline\/2020s.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/timeline\/avian-timeline-2020s.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Europe in Fall 2020<\/a>, has drawn particular concern and attention. Unlike in prior outbreaks, mammalian infections have become\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38407173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">significantly more common<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/mammals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many mammal species<\/a>\u00a0including pet cats,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/bird-flu-seals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seals<\/a>, foxes, mice, skunks, bobcats, and even a bottlenose dolphin have been falling ill and testing positive for the flu. Also unlike in past outbreaks, some mammals seem to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-48475-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreading the virus among themselves<\/a>, indicating that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/30\/3\/23-1098_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H5N1 has mutated<\/a>\u00a0to be more easily transmissible beyond birds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"mTNZU NCheb \"><!-- mTNZU NCheb  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Science Here\u2019s how experts say we should be mitigating the risk of H5N1 human outbreaks. highly pathogenic subtype of avian influenza (or bird flu), known as H5N1 is spreading among animals worldwide. For the past couple of decades, global health agencies have kept tabs on the virus, which is most well known for decimating [&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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"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\/6880","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=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}