{"id":8612,"date":"2025-01-28T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:52:18","slug":"rare-bird-flu-strain-found-in-california-raises-potential-of-wider-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/28\/rare-bird-flu-strain-found-in-california-raises-potential-of-wider-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare bird flu strain found in California raises potential of wider spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/01\/28\/new-bird-flu-strain-h5n9-california\/\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks. A new strain of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/12\/19\/bird-flu-outbreak-symptoms-vaccine-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0avian influenza<\/a>\u00a0has been identified for the first time in the United States, raising concerns that the virus is transforming in a way that could eventually cause wider outbreaks among humans. U.S. officials disclosed the discovery of the virulent H5N9 strain at a California duck farm in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wahis.woah.org\/#\/in-review\/6201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a report<\/a>\u00a0in recent days to the World Organization for Animal Health, which maintains a database of animal disease threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/01\/28\/new-bird-flu-strain-h5n9-california\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"gEBsODfWFkIaie ImFPyk q   \">gEBsODfWFkIaie ImFPyk q   <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks. A new strain of\u00a0avian influenza\u00a0has been identified for the first time in the United States, raising concerns that the virus is transforming in a way that could eventually cause [&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-8612","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\/8612","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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8613,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}