BONUS - An Update on Bird Flu in the U.S.

Public Health On Call

English - May 06, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes - 26.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratings
News Health & Fitness Medicine covid19 education globalhealth health medicine coronavirus covid novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: 754 - A Public Health Emergency: Syphilis Surges in the Great Plains Region

Next Episode: 756 - Electronic Cigarettes Part 2: How Serious are the Health Risks Associated with E-cigs?

Virologist Dr. Andy Pekosz and public health veterinary expert Dr. Meghan Davis return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about what we’ve learned so far from viral sequencing of H5N1, its presence in milk, what we know about infections in humans, the status of the overall response to a major pathogen of concern on the heels of COVID-19, and more. Read Dr. Davis’s recent New York Times essay on protecting the dairy workforce here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/bird-flu-dairy-workers.html