{"id":8397,"date":"2025-01-02T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:01:52","slug":"cdc-says-its-searching-for-these-pandemic-red-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/02\/cdc-says-its-searching-for-these-pandemic-red-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Says It&#8217;s Searching for These Pandemic Red Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bird-flu-update-cdc-red-flags-2007711\">Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/cdc\">CDC<\/a>) revealed it is monitoring for a number of red flags that suggest bird flu could become the world&#8217;s next pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bird-flu-outbreak-update-amid-first-human-case-los-angeles-2005500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;first severe human<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/bird-flu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bird flu<\/a>&nbsp;case in the United States was reported in Louisiana earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genetic analysis found the virus had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/cdc-update-bird-flu-mutations-humans-2006519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mutated, making it more easily transmissible to humans<\/a>, the CDC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency called the mutations &#8220;concerning&#8217; and &#8220;a reminder that A(H5N1) viruses can develop changes during the clinical course of a human infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bird-flu-update-cdc-red-flags-2007711\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"RV f lkeoMjLpBI  p\">RV f lkeoMjLpBI  p<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed it is monitoring for a number of red flags that suggest bird flu could become the world&#8217;s next pandemic. The&nbsp;first severe human&nbsp;bird flu&nbsp;case in the United States was reported in Louisiana earlier this month. Genetic analysis found the virus had&nbsp;mutated, making it more easily transmissible [&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-8397","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\/8397","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=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}