IS BIRD FLU THE NEXT COVID?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

As America faces an unlikely bird flu ‘outbreak’ in chickens and cows, many are speculating on when this rare illness will jump to humans. Jefferey Jaxen looked into the previous gain-of-function lab work on H5N1 funded by Tony Fauci and NIAID, and found something very interesting.

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0:00.0	Bird flu is back making headlines. A lot of consumer concern about avian flu.
0:06.7	Each 5N1, avian influenza, aka bird flu.
0:10.6	The federal officials are expanding bird flu testing as outbreaks continue to pop up.
0:14.3	The largest supplier of eggs in the U.S. has halted production after some of its chickens
0:19.1	at a Texas plant tested positive for bird flu.
0:21.7	Six states are reporting outbreaks of avian flu among dairy cows.
0:26.0	This week, a Texas dairy worker had pink eye after testing positive for the virus.
0:32.0	It's not only affecting birds, it's affecting
0:34.3	squirrels, dolphins, all different types of mammals. The more that we allow this to
0:40.4	spread mammals, the more we're tempting faith that this could evolve in ways that it could threaten humans.
0:44.6	We are definitely taking this seriously. This is a new development.
0:48.6	Cows, mammals, being a reservoir gives this virus new opportunity to change and that's what we're
0:56.4	watching for really closely.
0:58.3	Could this be the next pandemic? In terms of the animal kingdom it it already is a pandemic.
1:04.4	It's in every continent.
1:06.2	It's infecting all types of animals.
1:08.8	Is this COVID all over again?
1:10.4	Is it far worse than COVID?
1:11.9	It's one of the worst we've seen.
1:13.4	So, again, without scaring people,
1:16.1	it has the capacity to be worse in COVID.
1:19.0	What's not reassuring is that we've learned
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