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This Is Why

Bird flu: How serious is it?

This Is Why

Sky News

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Around 100 million birds have been culled across Europe and the US in the past year following the 'worst-ever' outbreak of avian influenza.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, Sally Lockwood speaks to poultry farmer Mark Gorton, director of science at the British Trust for Ornithology, James Pearce-Higgins, and Sky's science and technology editor Tom Clarke about how serious the threat is to business, consumers and wildlife.

Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Podcast producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alys Bowen
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pain in my hip.

0:02.0

I keep feeling dizzy.

0:04.9

I'm getting migraines more often.

0:09.6

There's another way to contact your GP practice

0:12.4

by simply sending your symptoms and requests

0:15.2

through their website or the NHS app.

0:18.2

We're delivering an NHS fit for the future.

0:21.7

Tap it, type it, and we'll take care of it.

0:24.3

Julia, how do you spell vertebrae?

0:27.0

Oh, just tight pain in the neck.

0:29.9

You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you?

0:34.5

Fine, she'd say.

0:36.1

She clearly wasn't.

0:41.3

After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with

0:47.3

new people, new challenges.

0:49.3

Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief.

0:52.3

Can't get a word in.

0:55.1

Give your skills new life.

0:56.7

Train others.

0:57.8

Search jobs in further education.

1:00.4

It's devastating.

1:02.1

We have already picked up thousands of dead birds.

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