How Bird Flu Could Impact YOU: Virologist Explains the Risks, How to Protect Yourself, & Why Egg Prices are So High

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Mayim Bialik

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to the bird flu, you are probably panicking about the wrong things! Understand the bird flu’s impact on wild birds, chickens, cows, cats, your grocery bill and whether or not your health is at risk. Dr. Seema Lakdawala, a molecular virologist from Emory University, is here to calm your fears with the latest bird flu news and help you better understand how the virus will impact you. She breaks down everything you need to know — what the H5N1 virus is and how it spreads, if the bird flu will become a pandemic, the difference between avian influenza and the seasonal flu, the bird flu symptoms in humans, how bird flu is affecting chickens, ducks and cows, how infections in wild birds are causing the spread of the virus and how you can best protect yourself from infection. Understand the impact vaccines will have against the virus and why we need to offer the vaccine to our poultry farmers and veterinarians, how your cat could be at risk for the bird flu virus and why infected chickens are causing high egg prices and egg shortages. And be sure to stay tuned until the end of the video! Mayim shows you a few egg substitutes for baking to save you money and precious eggs while we combat this virus and sky-high egg prices!

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0:00.0	Are there just too many people and is there too much bureaucracy for us to effectively manage an outbreak of a contagious and dangerous virus?
0:11.0	CDC actually does have a really great infrastructure for capturing influenza cases in most states. What they do not have and what they don't have purview on is the cows.
0:21.4	I haven't heard about milk. I'm hearing about eggs. Oh, oh yeah. No, you should have been hearing about milk, too.
0:25.7	The reason I think people like me are worried is because of the cows and the cats and all of the
0:33.5	mammals that are infected. Why can't we demand that there is no H5 in our grade A milk?
0:38.6	So it's actually not that crazy. It's not that crazy to say, I want to ensure that the milk
0:42.5	we're drinking doesn't have bird flu in it. How contagious is it, is the question.
0:55.5	Hi, I'm Biall I'm Bialik.
0:56.2	I'm Jonathan Cohen.
0:57.2	And welcome to an MBB reports.
0:59.3	We're going to talk about something that you may have not wanted to think about or you wanted to hope that someone other than you would think about.
1:06.5	Jonathan, what are we talking about?
1:08.6	It's been in the news.
1:10.4	And the big question is, are we on the verge of another pandemic?
1:16.4	Egg prices are soaring.
1:18.6	Birds are being affected, but it is more than birds.
1:22.2	It is more than the bird flu because it is being transmitted to cows, to cats, to other mammals, and also to humans.
1:32.2	So 166 million chickens are dead so far, either from acquiring the bird flu or being culled
1:39.9	in an attempt to control the bird flu.
1:41.8	We're going to be talking to Dr. Seema Lakdawala. She's an
1:45.8	associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University. She trained
1:50.8	as a molecular virologist at the SOC Institute in San Diego. This is her jam. This is what she
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