{"id":7055,"date":"2024-07-17T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2024-07-17T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:53:05","slug":"iowa-state-university-research-identifies-possible-point-of-entry-for-avian-flu-in-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/17\/iowa-state-university-research-identifies-possible-point-of-entry-for-avian-flu-in-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State University research identifies possible point of entry for avian flu in cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/agriculture\/2024\/07\/17\/bird-flu-virus-in-milk-is-key-clue-for-iowa-state-university-isu-researchers\/74426979007\/\">Des Moines Register<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As avian influenza is being detected in more and more dairy herds across the U.S., Iowa State University researchers have found a possible explanation for why the virus shows up in raw milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study published this month by a team at ISU\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine found that bovine mammary gland tissue holds receptors for the avian influenza virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd Bell, a professor of veterinary pathology and co-author of the study, said the idea to look at mammary glands as a potential entry point for the virus came after it was identified in raw milk. Two ISU alums in the spring identified an illness impacting cattle in Texas as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/2024\/04\/17\/two-veterinarians-hundreds-of-miles-apart-solved-a-cow-sickness-whodunit\/\">avian flu<\/a>, and ever since, teams at the university and in partnerships with other organizations have been working to tackle the virus and its spread from different angles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/agriculture\/2024\/07\/17\/bird-flu-virus-in-milk-is-key-clue-for-iowa-state-university-isu-researchers\/74426979007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines Register As avian influenza is being detected in more and more dairy herds across the U.S., Iowa State University researchers have found a possible explanation for why the virus shows up in raw milk. A study published this month by a team at ISU\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine found that bovine mammary gland [&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-7055","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\/7055","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=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}