Are We At Risk Of Another Pandemic?

What A Day

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News, Daily News

4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s a rough time for people who worry about infectious diseases. A new study shows bird flu is more widespread in U.S. cows than previously thought. Around 250 Americans have been infected with measles, including two people who died. And globally, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is struggling to contain a Mpox outbreak, Uganda is battling Ebola, Tanzania is fighting Marburg, and Lassa fever is spreading in East Africa. In the face of all that, the Trump administration has gutted funding for programs that help protect Americans from these types of diseases. Anne Rimoin, an epidemiology professor at UCLA and director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health, talks about what’s worrying her.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, March 13th.
0:04.0	I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that is celebrating the return of March
0:08.0	madness by getting very stressed out about sports while definitely not watching sports at work.
0:12.8	A thing you should also definitely not do.
0:15.3	Nope, no sports at work.
0:28.4	No. at work. On today's show, Senate Democrats have their own solution to keep the government open.
0:32.6	And President Donald Trump complains about former president's policies to the Prime
0:36.5	Minister of Ireland.
0:43.0	But let's start with bird flu, which has sickened dozens of people in the U.S. as it continues to spread among animals. And measles, as new cases keep showing up. Fun.
0:48.5	The Department of Agriculture says eggs are about double the price from January of 2024.
0:56.6	An ongoing bird flu outbreak is blamed as the main culprit. This morning, new numbers show the measles virus spreading like wildfire.
1:02.4	Texas, the center of the worst outbreak, now up to 223 cases, nearly double that from last month.
1:08.8	In nearby New Mexico, 33 cases more than triple the number
1:12.1	from last week. Earlier this week, a new study found that bird flu is way more prevalent in cows
1:17.7	than we thought, increasing the likelihood that the virus could spread to people, and then from
1:22.3	humans to humans. And measles continues to spread across a swath of the country, with new cases in
1:27.4	Maryland and New Jersey.
1:28.9	If only we had a super on the ball, very with it Secretary of Health and Human Services,
1:34.4	to reassure the public about bird flu while encouraging vaccination against measles,
1:39.3	the best way to stop the spread of the disease.
1:42.5	Unfortunately, we have Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
1:45.8	Here in conversation with Fox News as Sean Hannity at a stake-and-shake earlier this week.
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