{"id":579,"date":"2024-04-22T19:21:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterhealthyworld.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2024-04-22T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:21:21","slug":"alert-h5n1-virus-spreads-in-us-cattle-potential-human-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterhealthyworld.com\/news\/alert-h5n1-virus-spreads-in-us-cattle-potential-human-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: H5N1 Virus Spreads in US Cattle, Potential Human Risk\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

United States: <\/strong>The virus, which has infected US cattle, is now also showing signs of presence in mammals, a dangerous signal indicating a potential risk to humans, according to experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know more about the WHO Warning\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The news was reported by the World Health Organization (WHO<\/a>) chief scientist, Dr. Jeremy Farrar in his warning issued last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, as per the new WHO’s definition for airborne pathogens, “We have to watch, more than watch, we have to make sure that if H5N1 did come across to humans with human-to-human transmission that we were in a position to immediately respond with access equitably to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics,” as the US news reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the rare case scenarios, the virus<\/a> H5N1 has the tendency to infect humans who continuously stay in close contact with the infected animals, which was the case in the recently held incidence, where a Texas cattleman, due to his close proximity with the infected dairy, cattle got contracted. However, so far the human-to-human commutation of the virus has been held a difficult occurance, as per the experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farrar stated, “The great concern is that by infecting ducks, chickens, and now increasingly mammals, this virus may evolve and develop the ability to infect humans, and critically, to transmit from human<\/a> to human.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to WHO reports, there have been 889 known cases of human avian flu infection<\/a> worldwide since 2003, with 463, or 52 percent, resulting in death.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Richard Webby, who directs the WHO’s coordinating center for studies on the ecology of influenza, described the virus<\/a> as “a really scary virus” and expressed concern over the increasing number of small mammals being infected, a trend not seen in the past 20 to 25 years of monitoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H5N1’s Current State\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once again the US is utterly dropping the ball in a public health crisis. The @US_FDA<\/a>
even refusing to acknowledge if pasteurization kills the H5N1 virus.

"USDA faulted for disclosing scant information about outbreaks of H5N1 flu in cattle" https:\/\/t.co\/mujvcZ7QzT<\/a> via @statnews<\/a><\/p>— Doug Davis, BSN RN, DiDMM (@DouglasDavisRN) April 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>