{"id":9286,"date":"2025-04-23T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:16:02","slug":"bird-flu-feared-as-a-possible-pandemic-poses-growing-risk-to-people-as-pathogen-spreads-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/23\/bird-flu-feared-as-a-possible-pandemic-poses-growing-risk-to-people-as-pathogen-spreads-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bird-flu-risk-as-pathogen-spreads-60-minutes-transcript\/\">CBS News<\/a> Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year, the virus has ripped through America&#8217;s dairy herds and poultry flocks. It has jumped to other mammals \u2013 including humans. Seventy Americans have caught the virus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bird-flu-h5n1-death-first-us-louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"one has died, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one has died<\/a>. Long feared as a possible pandemic, doctors and veterinarians fighting the virus told us Biden&#8217;s government was slow to act; while the Trump administration has now laid off more than a hundred key scientists \u2013 all as the virus keeps spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kay Russo: At present, we&#8217;re given a stick, and they put a blindfold on us, and we&#8217;re sent into a gunfight and we&#8217;re losing. We are losing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bird-flu-risk-as-pathogen-spreads-60-minutes-transcript\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year, the virus has ripped through America&#8217;s dairy herds and poultry flocks. It has [&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-9286","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\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}