{"id":9973,"date":"2025-07-23T18:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:36:39","slug":"is-bird-flu-gone-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/is-bird-flu-gone-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bird Flu Gone for Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2025\/whats-the-status-of-the-h5n1-flu-outbreak\">Johns Hopkins<\/a> U.S. bird flu infections have declined in both birds and mammals, prompting CDC to shift from weekly to monthly reporting. But is the outbreak really over?\u00a0It\u2019s not unusual for wild birds to be infected by influenza viruses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza that began causing outbreaks in the U.S. in wild birds and on poultry farms in 2022 has had an unusual trajectory: It has infected humans and a range of other species from farm animals to marine mammals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. has recorded only three cases of H5N1 in humans this year\u2014compared with 67 in 2024. But that doesn\u2019t mean we should lower our defenses, says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/centerforhealthsecurity.org\/who-we-are\/our-people\/erin-m-sorrell\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Erin Sorrell, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erin Sorrell<\/a>, PhD, MSc, a senior scholar at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Center for Health Security, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Health Security<\/a>&nbsp;and an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/4528\/erin-sorrell\">associate professor<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/departments\/environmental-health-and-engineering\">Environmental Health and Engineering<\/a>. In a Q&amp;A adapted from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu\/921-is-bird-flu-gone-for-good\">July 21 episode<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/headlines\/public-health-on-call-podcast\">Public Health On Cal<\/a>l, Sorrell explains why now is the time to prepare for migratory birds\u2019 return to the U.S., and why we need an \u201cintegrated response\u201d to H5N1 that connects data for all affected species.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" r N R xFxbWL Q grXm\"> r N R xFxbWL Q grXm<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins U.S. bird flu infections have declined in both birds and mammals, prompting CDC to shift from weekly to monthly reporting. But is the outbreak really over?\u00a0It\u2019s not unusual for wild birds to be infected by influenza viruses.&nbsp; But the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza that began causing outbreaks in the U.S. in [&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-9973","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\/9973","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=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}