What You Need to Know About Bird Flu

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Publicado 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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  • @barbarabeagley6650
    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.
  • @anthonygriffin1958
    I have to admit I was quite surprised to find out a dolphin contracted the bird flu as well.
  • @robertlussier2944
    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?
  • @JeremiahEmbury
    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.
  • @susantillander2080
    There have been new developments since this was put out. It looks like cow udders have the receptors for flu. So, basically, cows are the pigs we were afraid would be infected. Human to human transmission is still considered to be low.
  • @timmeeow
    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.)
  • @JillKnapp
    I see Dr. Osterholm, I click! Thank you for this levelheaded, practical, realistic, and timely information.
  • @user-xn1ry8qg3n
    Thank you Dr Gupta. Learned so much from you in last decade.
  • @e4t662
    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.
  • @JohnSander-dg1rb
    It's election year so we know what's happening 😂😂 go away with the garbage