{"id":6423,"date":"2024-06-30T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2024-06-30T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:53:13","slug":"la-grippe-aviaire-aux-etats-unis-surveillee-de-pres-par-les-autorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/la-grippe-aviaire-aux-etats-unis-surveillee-de-pres-par-les-autorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian influenza in the United States closely monitored by authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in the number of cases of avian influenza on farms in the United States, the infection of cow herds and recent cases of transmission to human beings are of concern to Quebec and Canadian authorities, who say they are monitoring the situation very closely.<\/p>\n<p>Avian influenza \u2013 specifically avian influenza of subtypes H5 and H7 \u2013 is a reportable disease in Quebec. Avian influenza is a zoonosis, meaning it can be transmitted from animals to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of avian influenza in humans remain very rare, but last spring three cases of human infection associated with infected dairy farms were reported in the United States. Two infected people had eye symptoms and the third person suffered a respiratory infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in the number of cases of avian influenza on farms in the United States, the infection of cow herds and recent cases of transmission to human beings are of concern to Quebec and Canadian authorities, who say they are monitoring the situation very closely.<\/p>\n<p>Avian influenza \u2013 specifically avian influenza of subtypes H5 and H7 \u2013 is a reportable disease in Quebec. Avian influenza is a zoonosis, meaning it can be transmitted from animals to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of avian influenza in humans remain very rare, but last spring three cases of human infection associated with infected dairy farms were reported in the United States. Two infected people had eye symptoms and the third person suffered a respiratory infection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/la-grippe-aviaire-aux-etats-unis-surveillee-de-pres-par-les-autorites\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avian influenza in the United States closely monitored by authorities<\/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":[1007,1006,1009,96,1008,258,70,51],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-avian-flu","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird-flu","tag-canada","tag-h5n1","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-quebec","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","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=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6431,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions\/6431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}