{"id":9544,"date":"2025-05-27T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2025-05-27T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T00:09:06","slug":"bird-flu-the-next-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/27\/bird-flu-the-next-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu: The Next Pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/science-vs\/id1051557000\">Science Vs<\/a> Podcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bird flu has been in the headlines for ages, with scientists warning that we could be headed for a pandemic. But we\u2019ve been hearing about this H5N1 virus for so long that it\u2019s kind of starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf. So \u2014 what\u2019s really going on with H5N1 bird flu? How scary is it, and how likely is it that we\u2019re going to end up in a bird flu pandemic? We talk to virologists Dr. Seema Lakdawala and Dr. Richard Webby.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/bird-flu-the-next-pandemic\/id1051557000?i=1000708565495\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/assets\/artwork\/1x1.gif\" alt=\"Science Vs\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Vs Podcast Bird flu has been in the headlines for ages, with scientists warning that we could be headed for a pandemic. But we\u2019ve been hearing about this H5N1 virus for so long that it\u2019s kind of starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf. So \u2014 what\u2019s really going on with H5N1 [&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-9544","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\/9544","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=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}