{"id":1003,"date":"2015-05-13T08:03:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2015-05-13T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:03:44","slug":"h5n2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/13\/h5n2\/","title":{"rendered":"H5N2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630194.000-us-farms-hit-by-bird-flu--but-a-vaccine-might-make-things-worse.html#.\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (29 April 2015) (paywall) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630194.000-us-farms-hit-by-bird-flu--but-a-vaccine-might-make-things-worse.html#\" target=\"_blank\">explains the shortcomings<\/a> of current vaccines used to stop H5N2, which has decimated chickens in Iowa and turkeys in Minnesota:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[V]accinated poultry transmit the virus without getting sick, making its spread &#8220;silent&#8221;. Vaccination has driven H5N1&#8217;s evolution as these viruses adapt to the birds. China is now trapped, say researchers: it wants to give up expensive vaccination, but if it did, ubiquitous, silent H5N1 infections would decimate unvaccinated birds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Must make farmers feel helpless.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope they have insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewScientist (29 April 2015) (paywall) explains the shortcomings of current vaccines used to stop H5N2, which has decimated chickens in Iowa and turkeys in Minnesota: [V]accinated poultry transmit the virus without getting sick, making its spread &#8220;silent&#8221;. Vaccination has driven H5N1&#8217;s evolution as these viruses adapt to the birds. China \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/13\/h5n2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}