Bird Flu Concerns Emerge In America Yet Again

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Many doctors and scientists have been keeping an eye on the threat that 'bird flu' possesses to humans for years -- and a case of the influenza strain popping up in Texas this week is raising the alarm for many Americans. So, should this because for concern? And what really is the bird flu to begin with? FOX News Medical Contributor and Professor at NYU Langone Health Dr. Marc Siegel, who has done extensive research on the bird flu, discusses how the disease is spreading, what caused the most recent break out in Texas, and why fear can be just as contagious as a disease -- even if there's little to no reason to be afraid. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Untold Story podcast. I'm Martha McCallum. This is the podcast where we like to dig into some of the stories that we don't get enough time to really get into deep detail on. And one of the things, obviously, that we're all looking at with some consternation and concern is, are these new cases of bird flu in the United States?
1:04.0	So we got in touch with Dr. Mark Siegel, our friend, and asked him to join us today and talk about this a little bit.
1:10.0	As you know, he wrote extensively about COVID and reported extensively on COVID.
1:14.8	But he also wrote a piece back in 2006, I believe, bird flu, everything you need to know about the next pandemic.
1:24.2	So obviously, Dr. Siegel, you are a great person to speak with about this. Welcome.
1:29.8	Great to be with you, Martha, always. So tell me a little bit about bird flu and about what we're
1:35.4	seeing right now in terms of this person who contracted it after, you know, some sort of exposure to a cow who had it.
1:44.0	Fill us in. What do we need to know here,
1:45.7	doctor? You know, I've been looking at bird flu since 2006, as you mentioned. I wrote a book
1:52.0	about it. I interviewed David Swain, who was the top avian flu researcher for the USDA, because he studied it
1:59.6	in birds. And he said, look, we're several mutations away
2:03.1	from where it could go easily human to human, even at a time when it was killing millions of
2:08.1	birds. It kills poultry. It kills chickens and turkeys because they don't have great immune
2:14.3	systems. And so he's been tracking it for USDA for many years.
2:19.3	Then in 2012, another event occurred of great significance, Martha, which is someone named
2:24.7	Ron Fauci in the Netherlands found the exact four mutations it would take for this to go easily
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