{"id":5601,"date":"2024-04-30T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2024-04-30T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:09:46","slug":"what-were-starting-to-learn-about-h5n1-in-cows-and-the-risk-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/what-were-starting-to-learn-about-h5n1-in-cows-and-the-risk-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy cattle \u2014 whose udders seem to be where the virus either infects or migrates to \u2014 has dumbfounded scientists and agricultural authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Questions for which there are pretty clear answers when it comes to birds are suddenly unsettled science in cows. How are they getting infected? Are they transmitting the virus cow to cow, or are human actions \u2014 activities that are part of the day-to-day of farming \u2014 serving as an unrecognized amplifier of viral transmission? In the interface between infected cows and humans, how might people be at risk? Does consuming milk laced with live H5 virus pose a hazard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy cattle \u2014 whose udders seem to be where the virus either infects or migrates to \u2014 has dumbfounded scientists and agricultural authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Questions for which there are pretty clear answers when it comes to birds are suddenly unsettled science in cows. How are they getting infected? Are they transmitting the virus cow to cow, or are human actions \u2014 activities that are part of the day-to-day of farming \u2014 serving as an unrecognized amplifier of viral transmission? In the interface between infected cows and humans, how might people be at risk? Does consuming milk laced with live H5 virus pose a hazard?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/what-were-starting-to-learn-about-h5n1-in-cows-and-the-risk-to-people\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we\u2019re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1007,1006,1009,1085,1084,1008,77,1086,304,1083,8,51],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-avian-flu","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird-flu","tag-cattle","tag-cows","tag-h5n1","tag-influenza","tag-milk","tag-outbreaks","tag-pasteurization","tag-research","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}