{"id":7267,"date":"2024-08-06T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2024-08-06T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:29:54","slug":"blowflies-carry-bird-flu-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/06\/blowflies-carry-bird-flu-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowflies carry bird flu virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/science\/biology\/you-might-have-missed-blowflies-carry-bird-flu-twisted-carbon-nanotubes-and-more\/\">Cosmos<\/a> New research has identified a potential new transmission route for bird flu \u2013 blowflies of the genus&nbsp;<em>Calliphora<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese scientists collected blowflies near a wild crane colony in Izumi city, Kagoshima Prefecture, during an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 648 blowflies collected, 14 were found to be carrying the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile 14 blowflies may seem like a low number, this represents a prevalence in blowflies of 2.2%, which is a huge percentage compared to other diseases spread by insects,\u201d says Ryosuke Fujita&nbsp;of Kyushu University\u2019s Faculty of Agriculture, first author of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-61026-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Scientific Reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy keeping areas clean and using fly control methods, such as fine nets or insecticides, we can reduce the risk of virus spread to indoor poultry farms. However, in outdoor farms in other countries, and in wild bird populations, controlling blowflies may be logistically impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/science\/biology\/you-might-have-missed-blowflies-carry-bird-flu-twisted-carbon-nanotubes-and-more\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmos New research has identified a potential new transmission route for bird flu \u2013 blowflies of the genus&nbsp;Calliphora. Japanese scientists collected blowflies near a wild crane colony in Izumi city, Kagoshima Prefecture, during an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. Of the 648 blowflies collected, 14 were found to be carrying the virus. \u201cWhile 14 [&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-7267","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\/7267","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=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7268,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}