What You Need to Know About Bird Flu

The U.S. is grappling with a lately found outbreak of avian influenza in dairy cows, pushed by the extremely pathogenic H5N1 virus. It’s the primary occasion that the chook flu virus has been detected in US cattle. How involved ought to we be about ingesting milk and even consuming hen? And may this result in the subsequent pandemic? Sanjay speaks with epidemiologist Prof. Michael Osterholm (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph) , director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy on the University of Minnesota, concerning the complexities of the present outbreak and what the general public must know proper now.

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