What You Need to Know About Bird Flu

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Published 2024-04-30

The U.S. is grappling with a recently discovered outbreak of avian influenza in dairy cows, driven by the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. It's the first instance that the bird flu virus has been detected in US cattle. How concerned should we be about drinking milk or even eating chicken? And could this lead to the next pandemic? Sanjay speaks with epidemiologist Prof. Michael Osterholm (www.cidrap.umn.edu/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph) , director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, about the complexities of the current outbreak and what the public needs to know right now.

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All Comments (21)

@tonytran3166 11 days ago

Do not trust them they the one to created
@anthonygriffin1958 14 days ago

I have to admit I was quite surprised to find out a dolphin contracted the bird flu as well.
@robertlussier2944 14 days ago

Would the lab workers that test each load of milk from each farm be at any higher risk from handling milk straight from each farm?
@barbarabeagley6650 10 days ago

I'm concerned about it because it just wiped out a factory egg farm 2 miles from my home. I have flies that end up in my home any time the door is opened. Even in the winter, if its been warm enough for them to air out the hen houses everyone within several miles will get flies. So I just wonder if we can get it from flies carrying the germs to our homes.
@JeremiahEmbury 4 days ago

Genetic changes within pigs as it concerns to the avian flu virus in 1918 led to the spanish flu out break which started in the usa in kansas.
@user-xn1ry8qg3n 14 days ago

Thank you Dr Gupta. Learned so much from you in last decade.
@sabrinaroach2023 14 days ago

About time you talk about it Sanjay
@robertlussier2944 14 days ago

And people blame the president for the price of eggs🙄
@timmeeow 14 days ago

Would be great if this was accessible literally at all. Why is even auto-captions disabled? Emphasis on the AUTO! (It is enabled on other videos so it isn't policy.)
@jonsupp1744 11 days ago

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@e4t662 14 days ago

The days of mask mandates, quarantines,, wash you're groceries and keeping your job for being deemed "essential" etcetera, are over. That proverbial ship that already sailed.
@IronskullGM 13 days ago

Is it election season already?
@JillKnapp 14 days ago

I see Dr. Osterholm, I click! Thank you for this levelheaded, practical, realistic, and timely information.
@RemoteViewer1 14 days ago

"Bat Soup", CNN? 😂
@JeremiahEmbury 4 days ago

Like the movie contagion
@ajlacostewm 12 days ago

I havent taken the vaccine since day one seems i have a natural immunity for carona virus . So bird flue doesnt worry me.
@ahmdadn9165 14 days ago

there is no bird flu
@tedrowland8672 14 days ago

You need to be born again while there is still time!
@ChicagoWheels 14 days ago

Living Dead is Near!!! Fear the Living!!! NO Fear Here!!! Beware of ME!!! DW!
@advanceddarkness3 13 days ago

Election year, no surprise.