{"id":8233,"date":"2024-12-04T09:31:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:47:45","slug":"bird-flu-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/04\/bird-flu-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/04\/briefing\/bird-flu-explained.html\">NYT<\/a> By now, you\u2019ve probably seen some alarming headlines about bird flu, and you may be wondering how worried you should be. I understand the uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, we have all spent decades hearing alarming stories about strange viruses \u2014 like MERS, Ebola, dengue and Zika \u2014 most of which don\u2019t end up having a big effect on the U.S. On the other hand, one of those recent viruses turned into the life-altering Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s newsletter, I want to help you make sense of bird flu, using four questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-7af5efe3\">Making sense of H5N1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. What is bird flu?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an influenza virus officially known as H5N1 (and sometimes called avian flu). It has been circulating for decades, and it attracted global attention in the late 1990s after an outbreak among chickens in southern China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/04\/briefing\/bird-flu-explained.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT By now, you\u2019ve probably seen some alarming headlines about bird flu, and you may be wondering how worried you should be. I understand the uncertainty. On the one hand, we have all spent decades hearing alarming stories about strange viruses \u2014 like MERS, Ebola, dengue and Zika \u2014 most of which don\u2019t end up [&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-8233","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\/8233","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=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8234,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}