{"id":9474,"date":"2025-05-14T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:52:04","slug":"how-close-is-h5n1-to-reaching-the-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/14\/how-close-is-h5n1-to-reaching-the-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"How Close Is H5N1 to Reaching the Goal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Emerging-Diseases\/Article\/04-25\/How-Close-Is-H5N1-to-Reaching-the-Goal\/76897\">ISDE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/H5N1\/13640\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"H5N1, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H5N1<\/a>&nbsp;were on a soccer team, as one expert described it, it just might be able to score a goal: human-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each mammal that becomes infected with H5N1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/Avian-influenza\/4724\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"avian influenza, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avian influenza<\/a>&nbsp;virus, the concern for a human pandemic grows, especially since it has appeared in dairy cows because these animals do not normally get influenza (<em>Viruses<\/em>&nbsp;2019;11[6]:561).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, it was an astute veterinarian,&nbsp;<strong>Barb Petersen<\/strong>, DVM, who identified H5N1 in U.S. dairy cows in 2024 after ruling out other causes of the signs she was seeing in her patients. Dr. Petersen owns and operates Sunrise Veterinary Service, in the Texas Panhandle, which serves about 40,000 dairy cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Emerging-Diseases\/Article\/04-25\/How-Close-Is-H5N1-to-Reaching-the-Goal\/76897\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"aQO Gcb\"><!-- aQO Gcb --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISDE If&nbsp;H5N1&nbsp;were on a soccer team, as one expert described it, it just might be able to score a goal: human-to-human transmission. With each mammal that becomes infected with H5N1&nbsp;avian influenza&nbsp;virus, the concern for a human pandemic grows, especially since it has appeared in dairy cows because these animals do not normally get influenza (Viruses&nbsp;2019;11[6]:561). [&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-9474","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\/9474","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=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9475,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/9475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}