5 Good Things: Why We Should Be Buzzing About the Bees

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🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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An 11-year-old boy can hear now, thanks to a breakthrough gene therapy. A newlywed couple and their guests made the most of it, after a tornado ripped through a town in Nebraska the day before their wedding. The US honeybee population is at an all-time high. An Ohio mom who’s paralyzed from the waist down is learning how to walk again alongside her toddler. Plus, is adjusting a giraffe a pain in the neck? For some more goodness on Saturdays, sign up for CNN's The Good Stuff newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Head to Netsuite.com
0:01.4	slash Briefing Now for their one-of-a-kind flexible financing program.
0:05.1	Hey there, need a breather from the breaking news?
0:08.1	Then you're on the right place.
0:10.9	Each Saturday we focus on stories that remind us of the good stuff happening.
0:15.0	Like how bees are doing much better than we thought they were in the US, thank goodness.
0:20.0	The reason that we're all here today is thanks to bees.
0:22.0	They're the fundamental basis of our... The reason that we're all here today is thanks to bees.
0:22.8	They're the fundamental basis of our agricultural system
0:26.0	and they're the reason that you have food on your table pretty much.
0:29.2	Plus, what happens when a chiropractor gives a giraffe
0:32.3	an adjustment.
0:33.5	From CNN, I'm Krista Boe, and this is five good things.
0:37.3	Dr. John Germiller says an 11 year old boy from Morocco who was born completely deaf can now
0:46.7	hear the world around him.
0:50.0	He was actually a little scared when I first got his hearing back because he wasn't sure
0:55.2	what all this new information was all of a sudden. But it's exciting. He's loving it.
1:01.0	Aisum Dam was the first patient in the U.S. to receive a groundbreaking gene therapy treatment
1:06.6	at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
1:09.0	The therapy works by replacing the single mutated gene that causes congenital deafness with a
1:14.6	functional gene. Now he can hear at a level that we say is mild to moderate hearing
1:21.4	loss which is quite good.
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