{"id":8755,"date":"2025-02-18T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:47:18","slug":"first-cows-now-cats-is-bird-flu-coming-for-humans-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/18\/first-cows-now-cats-is-bird-flu-coming-for-humans-next\/","title":{"rendered":"First Cows, Now Cats. Is Bird Flu Coming for Humans Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/bird-flu-cows-cats-human-transmission-7adf14ec\">WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With so much H5N1 virus circulating across the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/bird-flu-h5n1-risks-explained-2025-a066af55?mod=article_inline\">Bird flu<\/a>&nbsp;is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though there are only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/situation-summary\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">68 confirmed cases in people<\/a>\u2014largely dairy workers\u2014public-health officials think bird flu is likely more widespread. Last week, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report documented three&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/74\/wr\/mm7404a2.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asymptomatic cases in veterinarians<\/a>&nbsp;who took care of cattle they didn\u2019t know had H5N1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/bird-flu-cows-cats-human-transmission-7adf14ec\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ With so much H5N1 virus circulating across the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic. Bird flu&nbsp;is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only&nbsp;68 confirmed cases in [&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-8755","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\/8755","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=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}