{"id":9326,"date":"2025-04-30T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:51:29","slug":"hidden-transmission-of-avian-influenza-virus-h5n1-found-in-texas-dairy-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/30\/hidden-transmission-of-avian-influenza-virus-h5n1-found-in-texas-dairy-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden transmission of avian influenza virus H5N1 found in Texas dairy cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-04-hidden-transmission-avian-influenza-virus.html#google_vignette\">Medical Express<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture&#8217;s National Animal Disease Center, with multiple academic, state and federal collaborators, identified the emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) in dairy cattle. Genetic analysis confirms that a reassortment event in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/wild+birds\/\">wild birds<\/a>\u00a0preceded a single transmission to cattle, after which asymptomatic or presymptomatic cattle facilitated the virus&#8217;s spread across the United States. Viral genome sequencing revealed low-frequency mutations linked to transmission efficiency and mammalian adaptation, raising public health concerns about future zoonotic spillover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-04-hidden-transmission-avian-influenza-virus.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" lgPUsiSQZ HZ VhAMxr c CWXt kqa\"> lgPUsiSQZ HZ VhAMxr c CWXt kqa<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Express Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture&#8217;s National Animal Disease Center, with multiple academic, state and federal collaborators, identified the emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) in dairy cattle. Genetic analysis confirms that a reassortment event in\u00a0wild birds\u00a0preceded a single transmission to cattle, after which asymptomatic or [&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-9326","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\/9326","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=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9327,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}