{"id":156099,"date":"2023-01-23T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/an-unprecedented-pandemic-of-avian-flu-is-wreaking-havoc-on-the-u-s-poultry-industry-humans-may-be-at-risk-too-experts-warn"},"modified":"2023-01-23T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:22:40","slug":"an-unprecedented-pandemic-of-avian-flu-is-wreaking-havoc-on-the-u-s-poultry-industry-humans-may-be-at-risk-too-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/an-unprecedented-pandemic-of-avian-flu-is-wreaking-havoc-on-the-u-s-poultry-industry-humans-may-be-at-risk-too-experts-warn","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018unprecedented pandemic of avian flu\u2019 is wreaking havoc on the U.S. poultry industry. Humans may be at risk too, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-unprecedented-pandemic-of-avian-flu-is-wreaking-havoc-on-the-u-s-poultry-industry-humans-may-be-at-risk-too-experts-warn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 3, she was transported to a pediatric hospital in critical condition after suffering septic shock and being diagnosed with pneumonia. She tested positive for the H5N1 strain on Jan. 7 and remained hospitalized, under sedation and on a ventilator as of Jan. 17, the international health organization stated.<\/p>\n<p>The previously healthy girl becomes the seventh individual the virus has sickened since 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2022-E000111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">according to the World Health Organization<\/a>. While H5N1 is considered highly infectious, that\u2019s only among birds. It\u2019s typically difficult for the virus to make the leap to humans, and transmission from human to human is \u201cunusual,\u201d the international health organization says.<\/p>\n<p>When the virus does make the leap, however, it\u2019s highly fatal, with a mortality rate of greater than 50% among humans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/communication-resources\/bird-flu-origin-infographic.html#:~:text=In%201996%2C%20highly%20pathogenic%20avian, 6%20deaths)%20in%20Hong%20Kong.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">according to the CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 3, she was transported to a pediatric hospital in critical condition after suffering septic shock and being diagnosed with pneumonia. She tested positive for the H5N1 strain on Jan. 7 and remained hospitalized, under sedation and on a ventilator as of Jan. 17, the international health organization stated. The previously healthy girl becomes [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156099","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=156099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}