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Is a Bird Flu Pandemic Inevitable?

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What A Day

News, Daily News

4.8166 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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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