{"id":8645,"date":"2025-02-04T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2025-02-04T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:10:10","slug":"tuberculosis-outbreak-highly-pathogenic-bird-flu-strain-and-polar-bear-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/04\/tuberculosis-outbreak-highly-pathogenic-bird-flu-strain-and-polar-bear-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis Outbreak, Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Strain and Polar Bear Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/h5n9-in-poultry-tuberculosis-outbreak-in-kansas-and-rfk-jr-s-confirmation\/\">Scientific American<\/a> <strong>Rachel Feltman:<\/strong>\u00a0Happy Monday, listeners! For\u00a0<em>Scientific American<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Science Quickly<\/em>, I\u2019m Rachel Feltman. Hope your February is off to a great start. Let\u2019s kick off the week by catching up on all the science news you might have missed. First, a quick note on some presidential moves that might impact health and science. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced at least some bipartisan pushback during confirmation hearings for his nomination for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. On Thursday the chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Republican Bill Cassidy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/rfk-jr-hearing-trump-news-01-30-25#cm6j86l2n00053b6m3izoha6w\">pressed Kennedy to take a definitive pro-vaccine stance<\/a>. Cassidy, who practiced medicine for decades, claims he has constituents who credit Kennedy\u2014at least in part\u2014for their decision not to vaccinate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/h5n9-in-poultry-tuberculosis-outbreak-in-kansas-and-rfk-jr-s-confirmation\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"l IVnkgm QA M PYj \">l IVnkgm QA M PYj <\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American Rachel Feltman:\u00a0Happy Monday, listeners! For\u00a0Scientific American\u2019s\u00a0Science Quickly, I\u2019m Rachel Feltman. Hope your February is off to a great start. Let\u2019s kick off the week by catching up on all the science news you might have missed. First, a quick note on some presidential moves that might impact health and science. Robert F. Kennedy [&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":[37,6,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-featured-headlines","category-tb"],"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\/8645","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=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}