{"id":11619,"date":"2024-08-21T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11619"},"modified":"2024-08-21T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:25:23","slug":"how-u-s-farms-could-start-a-bird-flu-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11619","title":{"rendered":"How U.S. Farms Could Start a Bird Flu Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The virus is poised to become a permanent presence in cattle, raising the odds of an eventual outbreak among people.<\/p>\n

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Without a sharp pivot in state and federal policies, the bird flu virus that has bedeviled American farms is likely to find a firm foothold among dairy cattle, scientists are warning.<\/p>\n

And that means bird flu may soon pose a permanent threat to other animals and to people.<\/p>\n

So far, this virus, H5N1, does not easily infect humans<\/a>, and the risk to the public remains low. But the longer the virus circulates in cattle, the more chances it gains to acquire the mutations necessary to set off an influenza pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the window is closing on our ability to contain the outbreak,\u201d said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious-disease physician who worked at the World Health Organization until April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re so quick to blame China for what happened with SARS-CoV-2, but we\u2019re not doing any better right now,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s how pandemics happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Half a year into the outbreak, H5N1 shows no signs of receding in U.S. dairy cattle or in the workers who tend them. In recent weeks, the virus has spread into poultry and workers.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday, infections had been reported<\/a> in 192 herds of cattle in 13 states, and in 13 people<\/a>. Nine were workers at poultry farms close to dairy farms in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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The virus is poised to become a permanent presence in cattle, raising the odds of an eventual outbreak among people.Without a sharp pivot in state and federal policies, the bird flu virus that has bedeviled American farms is likely to find a firm foothold among dairy cattle, scientists are warning.And that means bird flu may soon pose a permanent threat to other animals and to people.So far, this virus, H5N1, does not easily infect humans, and the risk to the public remains low. But the longer the virus circulates in cattle, the more chances it gains to acquire the mutations necessary to set off an influenza pandemic.\u201cI think the window is closing on our ability to contain the outbreak,\u201d said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious-disease physician who worked at the World Health Organization until April.\u201cWe\u2019re so quick to blame China for what happened with SARS-CoV-2, but we\u2019re not doing any better right now,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s how pandemics happen.\u201dHalf a year into the outbreak, H5N1 shows no signs of receding in U.S. dairy cattle or in the workers who tend them. In recent weeks, the virus has spread into poultry and workers.As of Wednesday, infections had been reported in 192 herds of cattle in 13 states, and in 13 people. Nine were workers at poultry farms close to dairy farms in Colorado.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":11621,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11619","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\/11619","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=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}