824 - Avian Influenza (H5N1) Update

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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About this episode:

Outbreaks of H5N1 continue to rise in dairy cattle and poultry, and human cases are also starting to creep up including a Canadian teen who was hospitalized in critical condition. In this episode: the latest on viral sequencing and patterns of spread, the potential for economic impacts and interruptions in the food supply, risks to the general public, and concerns about how an administration change in January may impact public health's ability to mount a sufficient response.

Guest:

Dr. Meghan Davis is a veterinarian and public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a joint appointment at the School of Medicine.

Dr. Andy Pekosz is a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with appointments in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Environmental Health and Engineering.

Host:

Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
0:05.9	where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.
0:16.3	If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.edu.
0:23.8	That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:32.1	This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.
0:34.3	Today, an update on H5N1, the bird flu that has been sickening cows, poultry, and now
0:40.4	humans. Stephanie Desmond is joined by a virologist Dr. Andy Pecoche and veterinarian Dr. Megan Davis
0:47.2	to discuss human cases, virus mutation, and the question on everyone's minds, is this the next pandemic?
0:55.7	Let's listen.
0:59.4	Andy Pecosh and Megan Davis, thanks so much for coming back to the program.
1:03.2	Such a pleasure.
1:04.5	Always a pleasure.
1:05.9	So we're going to talk about bird flu again.
1:08.3	And it's been a while since we talked.
1:10.5	So I'm wondering, Megan, if you could just lay out the landscape at this moment in mid to late November.
1:17.4	Sure.
1:17.9	And this always seems to me like where we last left our intrepid public health investigators,
1:22.7	we were investigating what was a growing outbreak among dairy cows with also cases in poultry,
1:31.7	and a lot has happened since then.
1:34.2	At this point, we have over 600 herds that have been confirmed positive, and the numbers are
1:41.3	growing almost every single day, particularly in California, which really is the current epicenter.
1:48.8	And I think when we last chatted, we hadn't even had the big outbreak in Colorado that impacted both dairy and poultry in major ways.
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