Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority.

Hello listeners and thanks very much for joining us today on this latest episode of Science on the Menu, EFSA's podcast.

My name is James Ramsey. I'm the head of communications at EFSA and today we're going to be talking about avian influenza.

So avian influenza is a topic that's featured prominently in the media in recent days,

and to talk us through what the virus is all about and also the work that we're doing here at

EFSA, we're joined by one of our animal health experts, Francesca Baldinelli.

Francesca, a very warm welcome. Before we dive into things, maybe you could just tell us a bit about yourself.

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I'm a vet, graduated in Italy.

I'm Italian and I'm an epidemiologist with a PhD in epidemiology

and a postgraduate diploma in animal health.

Before arriving to EFSA, I did several work in other institutes,

and I would say that my main work was at the National Institute in Italy for Public Health,

where I've been working for years on zoonotic diseases,

so diseases that can be transmitted

from animals to humans and vice versa.

And then in the National Epidemiology Center in Italy, they're working again on zoonotic

diseases.

Then I arrived to EFSA and I thought I was working only on animal diseases, but of course we are in a bigger

framework, the one of one health. So when we talk about human, about animal health issues,

they can also develop as human health issues. Yeah, okay. And maybe we come on to that in a bit.

That's the concept of kind of one health. And that's maybe we come on to that in a bit. That's the concept

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