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Dr. Mikolos, you helped us stay alive and live longer yesterday.

What do you have to add to it?

Well, to follow up on what you just said about

Winston Churchill's mom who was from Brooklyn, he actually mentioned in front of Congress when he

spoke, he said that he got his toughness from his mom who was from Brooklyn. So there's

another one for Brooklyn. But today we're going to discuss what you guys were talking about earlier because we're hearing a lot about the bird flu.

And since we all love a little bit of history to find out where it all started, it was first described back in 1878 in northern Italy by a gentleman named Dr. Eduardo Peroncito.

And he noticed that there was a very high death rate in the birds.

And he first identified that there's something called avian influenza or bird flu.

And it was until 1955 that it was found that it was actually a cousin of the human flu type A.

And then between 1959 and 1995, there were 15 major outbreaks where they've had to kill millions of birds.

Why did they have to kill so many birds?

Because it spread so rapidly.

And if it keeps spreading, it can wipe out basically an entire farm population of birds.

The problem is that we've had the first reported case in humans in 1997, and the first severe case

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