{"id":30734,"date":"2025-01-28T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=30734"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:25:39","slug":"avian-flu-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/avian-flu-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Flu Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"30734\" class=\"elementor elementor-30734\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bbc40fb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bbc40fb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2dc67ca\" data-id=\"2dc67ca\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a61b4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2a61b4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Avian Flu Update<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0db6b32 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0db6b32\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-476547f\" data-id=\"476547f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95b6424 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"95b6424\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Avian flu, or H5N1, has continued to spread across North America since its arrival in mid-January 2024, so far infecting 136 million domestic birds, 900 dairy herds and more than 11,000 wild birds. Although the risk to humans remains low, the U.S. Department of Health and Health Services (HHS) warns that the outbreak has pandemic potential. There are 67 confirmed cases in humans in the United States, including one death in Louisiana, all in people who have had close contact with domestic animals. In Canada, where more than 15 million domestic birds have been infected, mostly in British Columbia, only one human case has been reported; that of a teenaged male in Vancouver who contracted a strain of the strain of the virus associated with wild birds in the Fraser Valley.<\/p><p>The HHS has awarded $590 million to Moderna to speed up the development of a vaccine against avian flu. Moderna was one of first two pharmaceutical companies to successfully develop an mRNA-based vaccine against Covid-19. This new award is in addition to $176 million given to Moderna by the HHS last July. According to the HHS, the Moderna model is intended to be affective not only against avian flu strains now found in birds and cows, but also against future variants that may create a pandemic in humans.<\/p><p>\u201cAvian flu variants have proven to be particularly unpredictable and dangerous to humans in the past,\u201d says outgoing HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist with the University of Saskatchewan, agrees: \u201cThere is a non-zero chance that this virus can cause a pandemic,\u201d she says. \u201cWe need to be doing everything we can to prevent that from happening.\u201d<\/p><p>Meanwhile, in the United States, President Trump\u2019s pick to replace Becerra as secretary of Health and Health Services, John F. Kennedy, Jr., has stated that he is opposed to the development of vaccines against infectious diseases. And on January 23, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reported that \u201cthe Trump administration told federal health officials to pause public communications, including bird flu updates.\u201d<\/p><p>In the United States, the ratio of Covid deaths to confirmed Covid cases was 1 to 110.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7773afa\" data-id=\"7773afa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a960649 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a960649\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/ring-billed-gulls-1024x818.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-30738\" alt=\"Ring-billed gulls\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/ring-billed-gulls-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/ring-billed-gulls-750x599.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/ring-billed-gulls-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/ring-billed-gulls-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/ring-billed-gulls.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Bird flu has spread from farm birds to 11,000 wild birds, like these Ring-billed gulls, to humans; virologists warn that the virus could soon spread from humans to humans.| Photo by Paul Jones.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avian flu, or H5N1, has continued to spread across North America since its arrival in mid-January 2024, so far infecting 136 million domestic birds, 900 dairy herds and more than 11,000 wild birds. 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