{"id":9914,"date":"2025-07-16T13:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:26:35","slug":"bangladesh-and-india-alert-who-about-new-h5n1-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/16\/bangladesh-and-india-alert-who-about-new-h5n1-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh and India alert WHO about new H5N1 infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/avian-influenza-bird-flu\/bangladesh-and-india-alert-who-about-new-h5n1-infections\">CIDRAP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh and India alert WHO about new H5N1 infections. In a monthly zoonotic flu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/influenza\/human-animal-interface-risk-assessments\/influenza-at-the-human-animal-interface-summary-and-assessment--from-28-may-to-1-july-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"update, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">update<\/a>, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Bangladesh and India have reported new H5N1 avian flu cases that were previously unreported. Bangladesh\u2019s patient is a child from Chittagong division in the country\u2019s southeast who was admitted to the hospital on May 21, where a respiratory sample was collected. Symptoms included fever, diarrhea, and mild respiratory symptoms. The sample tested positive for H5 on May 28, and the neuraminidase was confirmed later as N1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation revealed the child had contact with backyard poultry before symptoms began. No other cases were detected, and the child has recovered. The illness marks Bangladesh\u2019s 11<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;human H5N1 case since 2008 and its third of 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIDRAP Bangladesh and India alert WHO about new H5N1 infections. In a monthly zoonotic flu\u00a0update, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Bangladesh and India have reported new H5N1 avian flu cases that were previously unreported. Bangladesh\u2019s patient is a child from Chittagong division in the country\u2019s southeast who was admitted to the hospital on May [&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-9914","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\/9914","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=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9915,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}