{"id":9520,"date":"2025-05-21T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:02:30","slug":"as-bird-flu-spreads-vaccine-shows-promise-for-protecting-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/21\/as-bird-flu-spreads-vaccine-shows-promise-for-protecting-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"As Bird Flu Spreads, Vaccine Shows Promise for Protecting Cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/bird-flu-vaccine-cattle\">Yale Environment 360<\/a> Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than 1,000 herds across the country. A new vaccine for cattle has performed well in early tests, raising hopes that it could protect livestock and help prevent an outbreak in humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2025.05.01.651548v3\">research<\/a>, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that calves administered an experimental bird flu vaccine made protective antibodies. When later fed milk from infected cattle, the vaccinated calves showed lower levels of the virus than unvaccinated calves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that cattle vaccines on their own are sort of a silver bullet,\u201d said Richard Webby, an infectious disease expert affiliated with the World Health Organization, who was not involved in the new research. \u201cBut we have to do something different because what we\u2019re doing now is clearly not working,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01497-y#ref-CR1\">told\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/bird-flu-vaccine-cattle\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale Environment 360 Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than 1,000 herds across the country. A new vaccine for cattle has performed well in early tests, raising hopes that it could protect livestock and help prevent an outbreak in humans. New&nbsp;research, which has not [&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-9520","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\/9520","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=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}