{"id":205766,"date":"2025-02-06T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/second-type-of-bird-flu-detected-in-us-dairy-cows"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:20:45","slug":"second-type-of-bird-flu-detected-in-us-dairy-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/second-type-of-bird-flu-detected-in-us-dairy-cows","title":{"rendered":"Second type of bird flu detected in US dairy cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/second-type-of-bird-flu-detected-in-us-dairy-cows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that\u2019s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice. Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always thought one bird-to-cow transmission was a very rare event. Seems that may not be the case,\u201d said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that\u2019s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday. The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle [\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-205766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205766","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=205766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}