{"id":11412,"date":"2024-08-16T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11412"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:24:55","slug":"as-bird-flu-spreads-disease-trackers-set-their-sights-on-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11412","title":{"rendered":"As Bird Flu Spreads, Disease Trackers Set Their Sights on Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals \u2014 which leaves pets and people at risk.<\/p>\n

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Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet insurance company, is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create a disease tracking system for pets, the company announced this week. The system will draw on insurance claims submitted to Trupanion in real time when sick dogs and cats visit the veterinarian.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe concept is to proactively detect potential threats to pets and public health,\u201d said Dr. Steve Weinrauch, the chief veterinary and product officer at Trupanion.<\/p>\n

The effort, which also includes academic scientists and other companies in the pet industry, is still in its early stages. Initially, it will focus on bird flu, a virus that has been spreading through American dairy cows and spilling over into domestic cats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a really important public-private partnership that is going to help fill some important gaps,\u201d said Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, who directs the C.D.C.\u2019s One Health Office, which focuses on the connections between human, animal and environmental health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s one of several ongoing efforts to address such gaps, which extend far beyond bird flu. Like most other countries, the United States has no comprehensive national system for tracking diseases in pets. While the C.D.C. is charged with protecting human health and the Department of Agriculture focuses on farm animals, companion animals tend to fall through the cracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a population that is a little bit lost in the shuffle,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Granick, a veterinary internist at the University of Minnesota, who is one of the founders of a separate effort to create a disease surveillance system for pets.<\/p>\n

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Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals \u2014 which leaves pets and people at risk.Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet insurance company, is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create a disease tracking system for pets, the company announced this week. The system will draw on insurance claims submitted to Trupanion in real time when sick dogs and cats visit the veterinarian.\u201cThe concept is to proactively detect potential threats to pets and public health,\u201d said Dr. Steve Weinrauch, the chief veterinary and product officer at Trupanion.The effort, which also includes academic scientists and other companies in the pet industry, is still in its early stages. Initially, it will focus on bird flu, a virus that has been spreading through American dairy cows and spilling over into domestic cats.\u201cThis is a really important public-private partnership that is going to help fill some important gaps,\u201d said Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, who directs the C.D.C.\u2019s One Health Office, which focuses on the connections between human, animal and environmental health.It\u2019s one of several ongoing efforts to address such gaps, which extend far beyond bird flu. Like most other countries, the United States has no comprehensive national system for tracking diseases in pets. While the C.D.C. is charged with protecting human health and the Department of Agriculture focuses on farm animals, companion animals tend to fall through the cracks.\u201cThis is a population that is a little bit lost in the shuffle,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Granick, a veterinary internist at the University of Minnesota, who is one of the founders of a separate effort to create a disease surveillance system for pets.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11414,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}