{"id":213519,"date":"2025-05-07T22:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bird-flu-in-cats-points-to-risk-of-another-pandemic"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:05:30","slug":"bird-flu-in-cats-points-to-risk-of-another-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bird-flu-in-cats-points-to-risk-of-another-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu in cats points to risk of another pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bird-flu-in-cats-points-to-risk-of-another-pandemic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health have published a comprehensive review documenting research on bird flu in cats and calling for urgent surveillance of cats to help avoid human-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofaf261\/8123920\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe virus has evolved, and the way that it jumps between species\u2014from birds to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cats\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cats<\/a>, and now between cows and cats, cats and humans\u2014is very concerning. As summer approaches, we are anticipating cases on farms and in the wild to rise again,\u201d says lead and senior author Dr. Kristen Coleman, assistant professor in UMD School of Public Health\u2019s Department of Global, Environmental and Occupational Health and affiliate professor in UMD\u2019s Department of Veterinary Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health have published a comprehensive review documenting research on bird flu in cats and calling for urgent surveillance of cats to help avoid human-to-human transmission. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,1511,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-surveillance","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213519","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}