{"id":34088,"date":"2024-05-17T05:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=34088"},"modified":"2024-05-17T05:41:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:41:24","slug":"lack-of-bird-flu-testing-may-be-hiding-true-spread-of-virus-on-us-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=34088","title":{"rendered":"Lack of bird flu testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4a79fcbddfd22b9e60034d3a847ff3fb9d7240b5\/0_0_6000_4000\/master\/6000.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none\" width=\"263\" height=\"175\" \/>H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk \u2013 but gaps in testing of cattle and humans are hampering effort to stop virus<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/may\/12\/bird-flu-spread-testing-lacking-cattle-humans\">Lack of bird flu testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>great.  and I think I just read North Carolnia is about to ban masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Barb Petersen, the veterinarian who discovered the first case of H5N1 in Texas cows, said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bird-flu-dairy-farmers-barb-petersen-07bd5accb01441bc5d279464271d2371\">dairy workers were also sick<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 some of them sick enough to miss work, which was very unusual, she said \u2013 but they were not tested for the highly pathogenic avian influenza.<\/p><p>\u201cThey\u2019re really concerned that if they wave the flag \u2018we\u2019ve got the virus here,\u2019 they\u2019ll be penalized either economically or through disruptions to their operating procedures,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to find a way to overcome that and protect the farms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk \u2013 but gaps in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[632,740,21,57],"class_list":["post-34088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bird-flu","tag-pandemic","tag-uh-oh","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34090,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34088\/revisions\/34090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}