Fowl threat: is avian flu going viral?
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Avian flu has decimated poultry and wild birds around the globe in recent years. The virus has now spread extensively among mammals, affecting more than 50 species from cats to sea lions. The disease was recently discovered in dairy cows in North America and some farm workers were infected, causing widespread alarm. Could this be the next pandemic? Can we stop it spreading? Will vaccination help? Join us as we investigate why avian flu is making headlines and what we can do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of Science on the Menu, EFSA's podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | My name is James Ramsey and today we're returning to the topic of avian influenza, |
| 0:29.6 | something we first discussed last year in an episode back in March, |
| 0:34.6 | 2023. As those of you who follow the news closely will know, the topic of avian influenza |
| 0:40.0 | is something that's still grabbing headlines over a year later. And we're going to explore |
| 0:44.6 | why that might be the case with a couple of EFSA's animal health experts. So I'm very happy to welcome |
| 0:50.1 | to the podcast Lisa Kernle and Alessandra Boroglia, who are both from the animal health |
| 0:55.3 | team here at EFSA and who have been contributing their knowledge and expertise to the scientific |
| 1:01.1 | advice we've produced on avian influenza. |
| 1:03.6 | So Lisa, Alessandro, a warm welcome to you both. |
| 1:07.3 | How are you both doing? |
| 1:08.7 | Thanks a lot for the invitation, Very busy on the topic as usual. |
| 1:12.6 | Good, good. |
| 1:13.6 | Thank you James. |
| 1:14.6 | Good. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm going to call you Ale, is that okay? |
| 1:16.6 | So we refer to you affectionately as Ale instead of Alé. |
| 1:19.6 | As everybody called me. |
| 1:21.6 | Okay. |
| 1:22.6 | Very briefly, just give people a sense of who you are and what it is that you do here at EFSA. |
| 1:30.2 | Maybe starting with you, Lisa. |
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