{"id":8127,"date":"2024-11-19T14:18:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:18:48","slug":"could-avian-flu-cause-our-next-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/19\/could-avian-flu-cause-our-next-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Avian Flu Cause Our Next Pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/parasites-and-plagues\/112936?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-11-19&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1\">MedPageToday<\/a> Colleagues, it&#8217;s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Or, for a true reality check, just scan the Department of Agriculture&#8217;s frequently-updated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/mammals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map and tablesopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;naming the many animals that have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the U.S. since May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding influenza A\/H5N1 in wild birds and waterfowl and poultry is nothing new, of course. During 2024, however, our country has seen its first-ever multi-state outbreak in dairy cows expressing milk heavily tainted with the virus, as well as illness, deaths, or detections in cats, goats, alpaca, skunks, and house mice, among others. The latest species found to harbor A\/H5N1 was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T272k2HMusM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">backyard pig in Oregonopens in a new tab or window<\/a>. Once euthanized, its tissues teeming with virus fueled further unease because pigs are classic mixing vessels in which human and avian flu viruses can recombine and form new, virulent strains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/parasites-and-plagues\/112936?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-11-19&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Colleagues, it&#8217;s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Or, for a true reality check, just scan the Department of Agriculture&#8217;s frequently-updated&nbsp;map and tablesopens in a new tab or window&nbsp;naming the many animals that have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the U.S. since May 2022. Finding influenza A\/H5N1 in [&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-8127","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\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8128,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}