{"id":14208,"date":"2024-12-20T13:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14208"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:54:45","slug":"australian-research-sees-bird-flu-fatal-for-vast-majority-of-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/australian-research-sees-bird-flu-fatal-for-vast-majority-of-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian research sees bird flu fatal for vast majority of pregnant women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Contracting bird flu is fatal for a vast majority of pregnant women, an Australian research has said.<br \/>\nThe research, which was published on Friday by the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, systematically reviewed over 1,500 research papers and examined 30 reported cases of women who contracted bird flu while pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>It found that bird flu was fatal for 27 of the 30 women, a mortality rate of 90 percent.<br \/>\nThe study was published as human cases linked to outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strains H5N1 and H5N2 increase globally.<\/p>\n<p>The research team said that the findings showed that the inclusion of pregnant women as early as possible in pandemic planning must be a key priority.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael Purcell, a co-author of the study from MCRI, said that despite being a high-risk population, pregnant women are often excluded from vaccine trials and face delayed entry into public health vaccination programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A paradigm shift is required to routinely include pregnant women in pandemic preparedness programs to avoid preventable deaths,&#8221; she said in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contracting bird flu is fatal for a vast majority of pregnant women, an Australian research has said. The research, which was published on Friday by the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, systematically reviewed over 1,500 research papers and examined 30 reported cases of women who contracted bird flu while pregnant. It found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208\/revisions\/14210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}