{"id":187758,"date":"2024-04-20T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/risk-of-bird-flu-spreading-to-humans-is-enormous-concern-says-who"},"modified":"2024-04-20T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T19:27:12","slug":"risk-of-bird-flu-spreading-to-humans-is-enormous-concern-says-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/risk-of-bird-flu-spreading-to-humans-is-enormous-concern-says-who","title":{"rendered":"Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is \u2018enormous concern\u2019, says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/risk-of-bird-flu-spreading-to-humans-is-enormous-concern-says-who2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remains I think an enormous concern,\u201d the UN health agency\u2019s chief scientist, Jeremy Farrar, told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Cows and goats joined the list of species affected last month \u2013 a surprising development for experts because they were not thought susceptible to this type of influenza. US authorities reported this month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/01\/texas-bird-flu\">a person in Texas was recovering from bird flu<\/a> after being exposed to dairy cattle, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01036-1\">16 herds across six states<\/a> infected apparently after exposure to wild birds.<\/p>\n<p>The A(H5N1) variant has become \u201ca global zoonotic animal pandemic\u201d, Farrar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis remains I think an enormous concern,\u201d the UN health agency\u2019s chief scientist, Jeremy Farrar, told reporters in Geneva. Cows and goats joined the list of species affected last month \u2013 a surprising development for experts because they were not thought susceptible to this type of influenza. US authorities reported this month that a person [\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-187758","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\/187758","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=187758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}