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The vets had no symptoms, and one worked only in states where no dairy infections had been reported.<\/p>\n

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Three dairy veterinarians, including one who worked only in states with no known bird flu outbreaks in cows, had recent, undetected bird flu infections, according to a new study<\/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The results are based on antibody testing of 150 veterinarians working in 46 U.S. states.<\/p>\n

The findings were not entirely surprising, experts said, but did suggest that the virus, known as H5N1, could be infecting cows and people in more states than have been officially reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not know the extent of this outbreak in the U.S.,\u201d said Seema Lakdawala, a virologist at Emory University. \u201cThere are clearly infections happening that we\u2019re missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows was first reported last March, the virus has been confirmed in more than 950 herds<\/a> in 16 states. It has also been detected in 68 people, 41 of whom<\/a> had contact with sick cows. Most people have had mild symptoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new study, which was published in the C.D.C.\u2019s flagship Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, was initially slated for publication several weeks ago but was delayed by the Trump administration\u2019s pause on public communications<\/a> from health and science agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for public health preparedness that we have this data,\u201d said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n

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The vets had no symptoms, and one worked only in states where no dairy infections had been reported.Three dairy veterinarians, including one who worked only in states with no known bird flu outbreaks in cows, had recent, undetected bird flu infections, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The results are based on antibody testing of 150 veterinarians working in 46 U.S. states.The findings were not entirely surprising, experts said, but did suggest that the virus, known as H5N1, could be infecting cows and people in more states than have been officially reported.\u201cWe do not know the extent of this outbreak in the U.S.,\u201d said Seema Lakdawala, a virologist at Emory University. \u201cThere are clearly infections happening that we\u2019re missing.\u201dSince the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows was first reported last March, the virus has been confirmed in more than 950 herds in 16 states. It has also been detected in 68 people, 41 of whom had contact with sick cows. Most people have had mild symptoms.The new study, which was published in the C.D.C.\u2019s flagship Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, was initially slated for publication several weeks ago but was delayed by the Trump administration\u2019s pause on public communications from health and science agencies.\u201cIt\u2019s important for public health preparedness that we have this data,\u201d said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases.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":22169,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22167","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\/22167","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=22167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22170,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167\/revisions\/22170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}