{"id":2224135,"date":"2024-04-18T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bird-flu-spilling-over-to-humans-enormous-concern-who-says\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T12:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:43:45","slug":"bird-flu-spilling-over-to-humans-enormous-concern-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bird-flu-spilling-over-to-humans-enormous-concern-who-says\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO expresses significant concern as bird flu spreads to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbird-flu-spilling-over-to-humans-enormous-concern-who-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224135&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200d summary\u2064 includes a button &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; \u2062within a HTML paragraph and a horizontal \u2063line \u2063separator. Additionally, there is a hidden section \u200drevealed by clicking the button containing information potentially related to an official from the United Nations, as shown by the URL tag in the\u200c HTML <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">code<\/a> snippet. The \u200bHTML code snippet consists of a\u2063 button &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221;\u200c in a paragraph,\u200c a\u2062 horizontal line separator, and a hidden section that may \u200dreveal information\u2062 related to a United Nations official upon clicking the button\u2064 based on the URL tag provided in the code.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>An official with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>World Health Organization<\/a> said Thursday that human-to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cdc-director-says-he-thinks-coronavirus-came-from-a-chinese-lab\/\" title=\"Former CDC Director Says He Thinks Coronavirus Came From A Chinese Lab\">-human transmission<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-china-downplays-first-human-case-of-h10n3-bird-flu-risk-of-large-scale-spread-is-low\/\" title=\"BREAKING: China Downplays First Human Case Of H10N3 Bird Flu, \u2018Risk Of Large-Scale Spread Is Low\u2019\">bird flu<\/a><\/a> would be an \u201cenormous concern\u201d among an outbreak among dairy cows in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remains I think an enormous concern,\u201d Chief Scientist of the WHO Jeremy Farrar told reporters in Geneva, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/18\/risk-bird-flu-spreading-humans-enormous-concern-who\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bird flu, otherwise known as H5N1, has an \u201cextremely high\u201d mortality rate among humans, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/04\/1148696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Farrar said<\/a>, and has so far spread from animals to hundreds of people, qualifying it as a \u201cglobal zoonotic,\u201d or animal, pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The chief concern, however, according to Farrar, would be human-to-human transmission. The WHO emphasized that no human-to-human transmission of bird flu has occurred as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe great concern, of course, is that in doing so and infecting ducks and chickens \u2014 but now increasingly mammals \u2014 that that virus now evolves and develops the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/completely-incorrect-fauci-denies-funding-gain-of-function-research-at-wuhan-lab-in-tense-exchange-with-rand-paul\/\" title=\"\u2018Completely Incorrect\u2019: Fauci Denies Funding Gain Of Function Research At Wuhan Lab In Tense Exchange With Rand Paul\">infect humans<\/a>. And then critically, the ability to go from human-to-human transmission,\u201d Farrar said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WHO added that vaccine development is not \u201cwhere we need to be\u201d and that local health authorities do not properly have the ability to diagnose bird flu.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/avian-flu-summary.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> has recorded two cases of human bird flu in the U.S. and classifies the current public health risk as \u201clow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Health Organization official stated that human-to-human transmission of bird flu during an outbreak among dairy cows in the United States would be a significant concern. &#8220;This remains a substantial worry,&#8221; said Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar in Geneva, as reported by the Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3042,"featured_media":2224136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/iStock-1668066413-1024x683.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/iStock-1668066413-1024x683.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}