{"id":8285,"date":"2024-12-11T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:39:32","slug":"officials-warn-of-bird-flu-amid-child-possibly-infected-after-drinking-raw-milk-in-north-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/11\/officials-warn-of-bird-flu-amid-child-possibly-infected-after-drinking-raw-milk-in-north-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn of bird flu amid child possibly infected after drinking raw milk in North Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/officials-bird-flu-child-possibly-infected-raw-milk-north-bay\/3733267\/\">NBC<\/a> There are new health warnings about the growing number of bird flu cases in California and the latest is in Marin County, where health officials say they are investigating a possible new case linked to a child who drank raw milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raw milk been under the microscope for weeks in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Dec. 6, public health officials issued a statewide warning, to test for bird flu in patients who display symptoms after drinking it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong pointed out that raw milk has long been linked to E.coli, salmonella, listeria risks and now bird flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRight now, it\u2019s very low threat to the general population, in the short-term, but in the medium term and long-term, I think that\u2019s where people are a little bit nervous because the virus is mutating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marin County is investigating a possible case of the bird flu involving a child, who drank raw milk. For now, Chin-Hong said people who don\u2019t consume raw dairy products are at lower risk. He added that risks will likely increase as the virus mutates just as it did with COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/officials-bird-flu-child-possibly-infected-raw-milk-north-bay\/3733267\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" nprtOVqPBlp\"> nprtOVqPBlp<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC There are new health warnings about the growing number of bird flu cases in California and the latest is in Marin County, where health officials say they are investigating a possible new case linked to a child who drank raw milk. Raw milk been under the microscope for weeks in California. On Dec. 6, [&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-8285","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\/8285","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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11300,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/11300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}