Is a Bird Flu Pandemic Inevitable?
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🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Why does it feel like avian flu is always circling around? How did it land on cows? Are we on the cusp of another pandemic? Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, host of America Dissected, joins Erin to break down how this strain of bird flu could go from animal plague to human plague, lessons learned from past outbreaks, and what can be done to stop it this time around.
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| 0:00.0 | Abdul, do you ever feel like you're living in a time loop? |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, sometimes, but then I look in the mirror and despite my incredible skin routine, |
| 0:07.5 | I realize that I am, in fact, getting older. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm serious, just look at the similarities between 2020 and 2024 both leap years |
| 0:14.6 | Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two major party nominees for president the chiefs |
| 0:19.3 | beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl both times and once again we're here talking about a |
| 0:25.6 | pandemic yeah you're probably talking about that H5 n1 avian flu that has |
| 0:30.8 | recently been found in dairy cows across nine states. |
| 0:35.0 | The US FDA says that samples of milk taken from grocery stores across the US have tested |
| 0:40.1 | positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows. |
| 0:44.5 | America's dairy cows will be tested for bird flu more closely to stop the virus from spreading. |
| 0:50.1 | Starting Monday, all dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for bird flu. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, I feel like all of a sudden bird flu infected cows are like this horror movie monster creeping toward us in plain sight, |
| 1:02.0 | and we are doomed to repeat the worst parts of |
| 1:04.5 | 2020 all over again. I mean we've been farming cows and chickens for long enough |
| 1:09.0 | that you knew they were going to team up to get back at us. So look we're not necessarily doomed to repeat 2020. |
| 1:16.2 | First of all the Lakers well they've already been eliminated from the NBA |
| 1:19.5 | playoffs so there's that and secondly there are a ton of differences between the early days of the COVID pandemic |
| 1:26.5 | and what we're seeing now with the Avion flu. |
| 1:28.4 | Oh, thank goodness. |
| 1:29.4 | So you're going to tell me a bunch of stuff about bird flu infected livestock and it's going to make me feel better. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, no, that's not happening. Not at all. But I can help you to put your pandemic anxiety, |
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