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Science Quickly

How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.6

Hi, this is your health Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series.

0:35.6

We bring you the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

0:40.4

And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy.

0:43.5

I'm Tanya Lewis.

0:45.0

I'm Josh Fishman.

0:46.0

We're Scientific American senior health editors.

0:50.0

Today we are talking about flu, but not just any flu. This is avian influenza or bird flu.

0:57.3

It's been sickening wild birds and mammals around the world and it has infected people.

1:02.4

Now it's spreading among US cows, but how big a threat

1:07.1

is it to humans?

1:11.9

Birdploo may sound like an innocuous disease that gives sparrows the sniffles, but it's actually quite a serious

1:17.6

pathogen that infects farmed birds like chickens and many species of wild birds.

1:22.0

It can also infect other animals, and humans too,

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