{"id":7575,"date":"2024-09-10T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7575"},"modified":"2024-09-10T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:40:56","slug":"5-burning-questions-about-missouris-mysterious-h5-bird-flu-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/10\/5-burning-questions-about-missouris-mysterious-h5-bird-flu-case\/","title":{"rendered":"5 burning questions about Missouri\u2019s mysterious H5 bird flu case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/09\/08\/missouri-h5-bird-flu-case-questions-cat-raw-milk\/\">STAT<\/a> Could raw milk \u2014 or a cat \u2014 help explain how a person who had no contact with animals caught the virus? News that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/09\/06\/missouri-h5-bird-flu-case-no-animal-contacts\/\">a person in Missouri contracted H5 bird flu<\/a>&nbsp;despite having no known contact with infected animals or birds \u2014 in other words, no evident route of infection \u2014&nbsp;raises pressing questions public health officials are surely scurrying to answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rationale for that urgency is this: An unexplained H5 infection raises the possibility of person-to-person spread of a flu virus that has never before circulated in humans, and to which people would not have immunity. And this with a dangerous flu virus that scientists have long feared could someday trigger a pandemic. After all, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic was first noticed when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm5815a5.htm\">two children in California<\/a>\u00a0who had no contact with pigs or with each other were diagnosed with flu infections caused by a virus that had previously been circulating in swine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/09\/08\/missouri-h5-bird-flu-case-questions-cat-raw-milk\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Could raw milk \u2014 or a cat \u2014 help explain how a person who had no contact with animals caught the virus? News that&nbsp;a person in Missouri contracted H5 bird flu&nbsp;despite having no known contact with infected animals or birds \u2014 in other words, no evident route of infection \u2014&nbsp;raises pressing questions 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7575","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\/7575","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=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7576,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions\/7576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}