A Bird Flu Pandemic Hovering on the Horizon
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | All engine running. |
| 0:03.0 | Absolutely genius. |
| 0:04.0 | Get this. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the show where we bring science. |
| 0:08.0 | What that essentially means is discovery is |
| 0:10.0 | advances, research, technology, unbelievable. |
| 0:13.4 | Without further ado, this is the naked scientist. |
| 0:17.9 | Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, |
| 0:19.6 | the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs |
| 0:21.8 | in science, technology, and medicine with me, Chris Smith. |
| 0:25.6 | And this week... |
| 0:26.6 | We are seeing the greatest number of bird flu outbreaks and kept birds that we've ever seen before. |
| 0:33.0 | All the birds at the rescue center have had to be cold. |
| 0:36.0 | With over a million birds dead and signs that the virus is spreading now among other species in the wild, |
| 0:41.0 | are we at risk of another pandemic? Just as we thought COVID was over. |
| 0:46.5 | The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.-kuk. A new strain of this H5N1 virus which infects birds but as thankfully so far only rarely infected humans, |
| 1:09.7 | albeit with very high mortality rates of around 70% has been spreading widely since late 2021 |
| 1:16.9 | and produced the most severe bird flu outbreak that we've documented yet. |
| 1:21.0 | Globally, more than a billion birds are said to have been killed or culled in the last couple |
| 1:26.2 | of years. So why is this happening and as cases of H5N1 are also being found in mammals, is the virus edging closer to us and possibly a pandemic. |
| 1:38.4 | The human influenza that you're probably more familiar with is a virus that attacks our body by infecting the cells of our |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr Chris Smith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr Chris Smith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.