{"id":8953,"date":"2025-03-12T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:08:31","slug":"the-latest-on-bird-flu-research-infected-cats-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/12\/the-latest-on-bird-flu-research-infected-cats-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest on Bird Flu Research, Infected Cats, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-latest-on-bird-flu-research-infected-cats-and-more\/\">Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in cats are continuing, and new research is raising concerns about the virus. <strong>Human cases:<\/strong>\u00a0No new cases reported. There have been 70 confirmed and seven probable cases since 2024. <strong>Poultry cases:<\/strong>&nbsp;February saw 12.7 million domestic birds either infected with avian influenza or culled in response to an infection. The number is just more than half of January\u2019s tally. To date, March has seen 220,000 birds die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dairy cattle cases:<\/strong>\u00a0California has reported six new herds of dairy cattle infected with avian influenza this month, bringing the national total to 983 herds infected since the current outbreak began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infections in Cats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bird-flu-is-infecting-pet-cats-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\">Bird flu infections in domestic cats<\/a>\u00a0remain concerning, and there have been a few relevant new developments on the issue. The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service\u2014the office that is monitoring the avian influenza outbreak in domestic and wild animals\u2014has not announced any new detections of bird flu in mammals since March began. Several local officials have recently announced new cases in pet cats, however. The reports include two cats in Kansas without specified potential exposure routes, outdoor cats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/healthfit\/2025\/03\/more-nj-cats-found-with-bird-flu-health-officials-say.html\">in New Jersey<\/a>, cats that drank raw milk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/brief\/news\/health\/more-possible-cases-of-bird-flu-in-la-county-cats\">in Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0and cats that ate raw food in Washington State and Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-latest-on-bird-flu-research-infected-cats-and-more\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in cats are continuing, and new research is raising concerns about the virus. Human cases:\u00a0No new cases reported. There have been 70 confirmed and seven probable cases since 2024. Poultry cases:&nbsp;February saw [&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-8953","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\/8953","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=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8954,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}