{"id":8399,"date":"2025-01-02T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:29:17","slug":"bird-flu-samples-from-very-ill-patient-had-concerning-mutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/02\/bird-flu-samples-from-very-ill-patient-had-concerning-mutations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Samples From Very Ill Patient Had \u2018Concerning\u2019 Mutations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/27\/health\/bird-flu-mutations-louisiana.html\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature. After someone in southwest Louisiana was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu, the first such illness reported in the United States, health workers swabbed the person\u2019s nose and throat, looking for genetic clues about the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, federal health officials&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/spotlights\/h5n1-response-12232024.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;some unsettling results. Some of the genetic samples contained mutations that in theory might help the bird flu virus, H5N1, infect people more easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">One of those mutations was reported last month in a viral sample taken from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/world\/canada\/british-columbia-bird-flu-teenager.html\">teenager with a severe case of bird flu<\/a>\u00a0in British Columbia, Canada. The teenager was placed on a ventilator during a long hospitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/27\/health\/bird-flu-mutations-louisiana.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"fyZMt  zmXT f\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature. After someone in southwest Louisiana was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu, the first such illness reported in the United States, 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":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8399","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\/8399","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=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}