{"id":8545,"date":"2025-01-22T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2025-01-22T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:46:19","slug":"the-us-has-bird-flu-vaccines-heres-why-you-cant-get-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/22\/the-us-has-bird-flu-vaccines-heres-why-you-cant-get-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here\u2019s Why You Can\u2019t Get One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-us-has-bird-flu-vaccines-heres-why-you-cant-get-one\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country\u2019s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn\u2019t yet recommended.<\/strong> <strong>As avian influenza<\/strong>&nbsp;rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the latest state to detect the virus in a commercial poultry flock, and on Friday, it halted all poultry sales to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agr.georgia.gov\/pr\/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-confirmed-commercial-poultry-flock-georgia-all-poultry\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mitigate further spread of the disease<\/a>. Nationally, egg prices are soaring\u2014if you can find them at all in your local grocery store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing outbreak in animals has also led to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/situation-summary\/index.html\">at least 67 human cases of bird flu<\/a>, with all but one causing mild illness. Earlier this month, a person in Louisiana\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-first-us-bird-flu-death-is-a-stark-warning\/\">died after being hospitalized with severe bird flu<\/a>\u00a0in December. It\u2019s the country\u2019s first recorded death attributed to H5N1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-us-has-bird-flu-vaccines-heres-why-you-cant-get-one\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-us-has-bird-flu-vaccines-heres-why-you-cant-get-one\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country\u2019s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn\u2019t yet recommended. As avian influenza&nbsp;rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the latest state to detect the virus [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-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\/8545","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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}