{"id":6963,"date":"2024-07-03T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:47:16","slug":"as-bird-flu-spreads-among-u-s-cattle-veterinarians-find-themselves-in-a-familiar-position-the-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/03\/as-bird-flu-spreads-among-u-s-cattle-veterinarians-find-themselves-in-a-familiar-position-the-frontlines\/","title":{"rendered":"As bird flu spreads among U.S. cattle, veterinarians find themselves in a familiar position: the frontlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/03\/bird-flu-outbreak-turns-dairy-veterinarians-into-avian-flu-deputies\/\">STAT<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When, in April, the federal government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/26\/h5n1-bird-flu-usda-cattle-testing-order-more-limited\/\">began requiring some cows to be tested<\/a>\u00a0for a strain of avian flu before their herds could be moved across state lines, it seemed like an obvious step to try to track and slow the virus that had started spreading among U.S. dairy cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Joe Armstrong, a veterinarian at the University of Minnesota extension school, feared the U.S. Department of Agriculture rule could lead to potential problems for his colleagues, who were in effect being deputized to implement it. \u201cI am 100% expecting this to result in many arguments with clients,\u201d he said on a podcast then, deploying the term veterinarians use for the farmers who hire them. \u201cWhether or not the practicing vet is the one who\u2019s handed down the rule, they are now enforcing it, and there are going to be clients lost over this situation. That amount of stress and pressure from two directions \u2014 USDA from the top, clients from the other side \u2014 puts practicing veterinarians in a very stressful day-to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/03\/bird-flu-outbreak-turns-dairy-veterinarians-into-avian-flu-deputies\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT When, in April, the federal government\u00a0began requiring some cows to be tested\u00a0for a strain of avian flu before their herds could be moved across state lines, it seemed like an obvious step to try to track and slow the virus that had started spreading among U.S. dairy cattle. But Joe Armstrong, a veterinarian at [&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":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","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\/6963","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=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}