{"id":7228,"date":"2024-07-30T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T21:10:15","slug":"cdc-will-offer-seasonal-flu-shots-to-farmworkers-to-lower-bird-flu-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/30\/cdc-will-offer-seasonal-flu-shots-to-farmworkers-to-lower-bird-flu-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC will offer seasonal flu shots to farmworkers to lower bird flu risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/30\/cdc-offers-farmworker-seasonal-flu-shots-latest-news-bird-flu-outbreak\/\">STAT<\/a> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that it is funding a $5 million program to vaccinate livestock industry workers against seasonal flu in a bid to reduce the pandemic risk posed by the ongoing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/topic\/h5n1-bird-flu\/\">H5N1 bird flu<\/a>\u00a0outbreak in cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The voluntary program, which will be administered by state and local public health workers, is aimed at getting seasonal flu shots into as many people as possible who are working in proximity to animals \u2014 poultry, cows, or other livestock \u2014 that could be infected with H5N1. Nirav Shah, the CDC\u2019s principal deputy director, said there are an estimated 200,000 people officially working in this sector nationwide, though he acknowledged that number doesn\u2019t encompass all people working with these animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/30\/cdc-offers-farmworker-seasonal-flu-shots-latest-news-bird-flu-outbreak\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that it is funding a $5 million program to vaccinate livestock industry workers against seasonal flu in a bid to reduce the pandemic risk posed by the ongoing\u00a0H5N1 bird flu\u00a0outbreak in cattle. The voluntary program, which will be administered by state and local public health [&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":[37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-vaccine-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\/7228","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=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}