{"id":122990,"date":"2021-05-25T02:11:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/highly-pathogenic-bird-flu-outbreak-already-reported-in-46-countries-scientists-warn"},"modified":"2021-05-25T02:11:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:11:26","slug":"highly-pathogenic-bird-flu-outbreak-already-reported-in-46-countries-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/highly-pathogenic-bird-flu-outbreak-already-reported-in-46-countries-scientists-warn","title":{"rendered":"Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Outbreak Already Reported in 46 Countries, Scientists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/highly-pathogenic-bird-flu-outbreak-already-reported-in-46-countries-scientists-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the world was distracted with the rampant spread of a novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a>, 2020 also witnessed an explosion in another deadly pathogen that could pose a threat to global public health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N8\">H5N8<\/a>, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), was identified decades ago, but during 2020 a series of emerging and ongoing H5N8 outbreaks in avian populations across dozens of countries have led to the death or slaughter of millions of birds worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affected geographic regions have been expanding continuously, and at least 46 countries have reported highly pathogenic H5N8 AIV outbreaks,\u201d virus researchers Weifeng Shi and George F. Gao write in a new perspective article in <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/372\/6544\/784\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>, warning of the dangers of H5N8 if we don\u2019t closely monitor and contain this worrisome trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the world was distracted with the rampant spread of a novel coronavirus, 2020 also witnessed an explosion in another deadly pathogen that could pose a threat to global public health. H5N8, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), was identified decades ago, but during 2020 a series of emerging and ongoing H5N8 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}