{"id":9018,"date":"2025-03-19T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9018"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:44:51","slug":"how-vulnerable-might-humans-be-to-bird-flu-scientists-see-hope-in-existing-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/19\/how-vulnerable-might-humans-be-to-bird-flu-scientists-see-hope-in-existing-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"How vulnerable might humans be to bird flu? Scientists see hope in existing immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/19\/nx-s1-5312998\/bird-flu-h5n1-immunity-pandemic\">NPR<\/a> Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08054-z\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"crossing into, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crossing into<\/a>&nbsp;an alarming number of mammals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet people remain largely untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/situation-summary\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the official tally, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the official tally<\/a>&nbsp;of human cases in the U.S. is most certainly an undercount, there&#8217;s still no evidence this strain of H5N1 has spread widely among us. But if the virus gains certain mutations, scientists fear it could trigger another pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This prospect has propelled research into whether our defenses built up from past flu seasons can offer any protection against H5N1 bird flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/19\/nx-s1-5312998\/bird-flu-h5n1-immunity-pandemic\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"VOZtLMoPng AwZ KmYvDbtjltcEOBQ \">VOZtLMoPng AwZ KmYvDbtjltcEOBQ <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and&nbsp;crossing into&nbsp;an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though&nbsp;the official tally&nbsp;of human cases in the U.S. is most certainly an undercount, there&#8217;s still no evidence this strain of H5N1 has spread widely among [&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-9018","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\/9018","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=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9019,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}