Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benny?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to this special web extra edition of Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, posted on December 22nd. I'm Steve

Mirsky. On this episode, there were people who knew what was circulating in pigs, but they

were generally speaking researchers who worked for animal health labs. That information didn't

generally speaking flow, though, to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta,

or people who were concerned about human health and wanting to watch what was going on in pigs

so they could be on the lookout for changes there.

That's Helen Branswell.

She's a medical reporter for the Canadian press and one of the world's most knowledgeable journalists about flu.

Her article in the January issue of Scientific American magazine is called Flu Factories and explores the uneasy relationship between pig farms where new flu strains can originate

and the public health community.

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