{"id":8452,"date":"2025-01-07T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T02:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8452"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T02:03:35","slug":"why-the-u-s-could-be-making-the-same-mistakes-with-bird-flu-as-it-did-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/07\/why-the-u-s-could-be-making-the-same-mistakes-with-bird-flu-as-it-did-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The U.S. Could Be Making The Same Mistakes With Bird Flu As It Did With COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/omerawan\/2025\/01\/06\/why-the-us-could-be-making-the-same-mistakes-with-bird-flu-as-it-did-with-covid-19\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2024\/m1218-h5n1-flu.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first severe case<\/a>&nbsp;of bird flu occurred last month in a Louisiana man hospitalized after having had contact with sick birds in a backyard flock. In addition, the state of California recently declared a state of emergency as the bird flu virus continues to spread among livestock in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, there have been 66 confirmed human cases of bird flu in the United States, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/situation-summary\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a>. The current public health risk remains low, as no sustained human-to-human transmission has occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some obvious questions remain- like how did the U.S. allow a patient to get severely ill from the virus? Also, are we repeating the same mistakes we made with the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020? Here are some reasons we may be repeating history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/omerawan\/2025\/01\/06\/why-the-us-could-be-making-the-same-mistakes-with-bird-flu-as-it-did-with-covid-19\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"khWWRzvjj\">khWWRzvjj<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes The&nbsp;first severe case&nbsp;of bird flu occurred last month in a Louisiana man hospitalized after having had contact with sick birds in a backyard flock. In addition, the state of California recently declared a state of emergency as the bird flu virus continues to spread among livestock in the state. To date, there have been [&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-8452","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\/8452","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=8452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8453,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}