What you need to know about bird flu
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A Louisiana resident has died from bird flu. Just as during the COVID outbreak, there's a lot of misinformation circulating about H5N1.
We'll get a clear assessment on bird flu, how it's changing, and efforts to control it.
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| 1:00.5 | This is On Point. I'm Magna Chakra Bardi. If listening to an episode about another disease |
| 1:06.2 | outbreak is the last thing you want to do, I completely understand. There are more pressing things in life right now, |
| 1:13.5 | and I'm particularly thinking of everyone who is coping with very harsh weather across this country |
| 1:18.3 | and the impacts of that weather, and the devastating wildfires, particularly in Southern California, |
| 1:25.5 | thinking of you all. However, just as there was with COVID, right now there's a lot of information and misinformation |
| 1:33.6 | floating around about H5N1, the current bird flu. |
| 1:38.3 | So today we're going to go back to basics and do the kind of show we frequently did in the first year of COVID. |
| 1:45.2 | We're going to ask, what do we know about this disease? |
| 1:48.6 | What do we currently not know? |
| 1:50.7 | And what do we need to understand to better under, excuse me, to better protect everyone? |
| 1:57.6 | So to do that, I'm joined by Megan Davis. |
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