{"id":6961,"date":"2024-07-03T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:43:26","slug":"cdc-looks-to-expand-capacity-to-test-for-h5n1-bird-flu-in-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/03\/cdc-looks-to-expand-capacity-to-test-for-h5n1-bird-flu-in-people\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC looks to expand capacity to test for H5N1 bird flu in people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/02\/cdc-looks-to-expand-capacity-to-test-for-h5n1-bird-flu-in-people\/\">STAT<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/topic\/h5n1-bird-flu\/\">H5N1 bird flu outbreak\u00a0<\/a>in dairy cows enters its fourth month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking steps to ramp up the nation\u2019s capacity to test for the virus in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a call with reporters Tuesday, Nirav Shah, the CDC\u2019s principal deputy director, emphasized that the risk to the general public remains low at this time. But given that the virus is showing no signs of slowing its push deeper into the U.S. cattle population \u2014 threatening to create lasting risks to dairy workers and giving it more chances to evolve in ways that make it better at spreading to and among humans \u2014 the agency is looking to increase the number and types of tests that can effectively detect H5N1 infections in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/02\/cdc-looks-to-expand-capacity-to-test-for-h5n1-bird-flu-in-people\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT As the\u00a0H5N1 bird flu outbreak\u00a0in dairy cows enters its fourth month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking steps to ramp up the nation\u2019s capacity to test for the virus in people. In a call with reporters Tuesday, Nirav Shah, the CDC\u2019s principal deputy director, emphasized that the risk to the general [&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-6961","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\/6961","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=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}