BONUS - An Update on Bird Flu in the U.S.
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Virologist Dr. Andy Pekosz and public health veterinary expert Dr. Meghan Davis return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about what we've learned so far from viral sequencing of H5N1, its presence in milk, what we know about infections in humans, the status of the overall response to a major pathogen of concern on the heels of COVID-19, and more. Read Dr. Davis's recent New York Times essay on protecting the dairy workforce.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:32.6 | Today we welcome back Dr. Andy Peckosch, a virologist, and Dr. Megan Davis, a veterinarian, |
| 0:39.1 | to give an update on the developing story of the spread of avian flu beyond birds in the United |
| 0:43.7 | States. Stephanie Desmond asked them about the threat to the milk supply, to other mammals |
| 0:48.5 | beyond cows, and why this situation is testing the systems put in place to keep people safe |
| 0:54.1 | after the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:55.9 | Let's listen. |
| 0:57.3 | Megan Davis and Andy Pecosh. |
| 0:59.1 | Thank you both so much for joining me. |
| 1:01.1 | Great to be here. |
| 1:02.4 | Very happy to be here. |
| 1:03.7 | So the three of us had this conversation a month ago. |
| 1:07.3 | We talked about the H5N1, which was being found surprisingly in cattle and in a farm worker. |
| 1:18.5 | But the things have really changed since then. So I'm wondering, Andy, if you want to just start, |
| 1:23.1 | give us the lay of the land right now. Absolutely. From the virus side of things, we had a big data dump |
| 1:30.2 | from the USDA, the Department of Agriculture, that put out a bunch of sequences of viruses that were |
| 1:36.4 | sampled from cattle in different farms and different states. And it tells a really fascinating story |
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