{"id":8712,"date":"2025-02-11T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:08:34","slug":"how-worried-should-you-be-about-bird-flu-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/11\/how-worried-should-you-be-about-bird-flu-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How Worried Should You Be About Bird Flu? Here\u2019s What to Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/bird-flu-h5n1-risks-explained-2025-a066af55\">WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Risk for the general public is still low, but public-health experts advise caution. Sky-high egg prices. Millions of dead chickens. A new strain in cattle. Bird flu is making its way around the country, hitting farmers and consumers in their wallets.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A second strain of H5N1 avian flu was recently detected&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/california-declares-state-of-emergency-on-spread-of-bird-flu-in-dairy-herds-79ef7a65?mod=article_inline\">among dairy cows<\/a>&nbsp;in Nevada, a sign that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/commodities-futures\/bird-flu-spreads-to-cattle-raising-fears-on-farms-9293b953?mod=article_inline\">the outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;could be harder to rein in than previously thought. A Nevada dairy worker exposed to infected cows also tested positive for the strain, federal health officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/bird-flu-h5n1-risks-explained-2025-a066af55\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ Risk for the general public is still low, but public-health experts advise caution. Sky-high egg prices. Millions of dead chickens. A new strain in cattle. Bird flu is making its way around the country, hitting farmers and consumers in their wallets.\u00a0 A second strain of H5N1 avian flu was recently detected&nbsp;among dairy cows&nbsp;in Nevada, [&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-8712","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\/8712","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=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}