{"id":9387,"date":"2025-05-07T10:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:39:40","slug":"how-dangerous-is-the-h5n1-virus-experts-warn-of-its-pandemic-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/07\/how-dangerous-is-the-h5n1-virus-experts-warn-of-its-pandemic-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"How dangerous is the H5N1 virus? Experts warn of its pandemic potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/how-dangerous-is-the-h5n1-virus-experts-warn-of-its-pandemic-potential\/ar-AA1Ebl0n\">MSN<\/a> Virologists across the globe are raising alarms over the spread of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/bird-flu-world-leaders-prepare-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"H5N1 avian flu virus, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H5N1 avian flu virus<\/a>, which is now infecting not just birds, but cattle and humans. While the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/situation-summary\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>\u00a0(CDC) currently considers the risk to the general public low,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2025\/02\/07\/bird-flu-temporarily-shuts-down-live-bird-markets-nyc-westchester-suffolk-nassau-what-to-know\/78327282007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"scientists warn that the virus\u2019s increasing reach, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scientists warn that the virus\u2019s increasing reach<\/a>\u00a0could lead to another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/experts-urge-us-to-prepare-for-potential-pandemic-as-a-new-virus-spreads-in-all-50-states-8285087\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"pandemic, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanam\/article\/PIIS2667-193X(25)00110-3\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Lancet Regional Health\u2013Americas, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lancet Regional Health\u2013Americas<\/a><\/em>\u00a0commentary, virologists from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gvn.org\/global-virus-network-issues-urgent-call-to-action-to-mitigate-the-rising-threat-of-h5n1-avian-influenza\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Global Virus Network, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Virus Network<\/a>\u00a0(GVN), representing 40 countries, warned of the virus&#8217;s growing threat. \u201cThe recent emergence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus infections in dairy cows and humans in the U.S. has raised alarms regarding the potential for a pandemic,\u201d they wrote. The virus has now affected nearly 1,000 dairy herds and at least 70 people, including one U.S. death linked to H5N1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/how-dangerous-is-the-h5n1-virus-experts-warn-of-its-pandemic-potential\/ar-AA1Ebl0n\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN Virologists across the globe are raising alarms over the spread of the\u00a0H5N1 avian flu virus, which is now infecting not just birds, but cattle and humans. While the U.S.\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0(CDC) currently considers the risk to the general public low,\u00a0scientists warn that the virus\u2019s increasing reach\u00a0could lead to another\u00a0pandemic. In a [&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-9387","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\/9387","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=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9388,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}