Belinda Smith
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2,583 appearances
26 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Belinda Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Exactly right.
And, you know, CSL Securus, they were getting half a million eggs per day just to manufacture vaccines.
Vaccines, just standard run-of-the-mill everyday vaccines.
So now they've switched over their manufacturing facility to grow the vaccine in mammal cells.
So they don't need that constant supply of eggs.
They can store everything they need on site, ready to go should they need to.
Yeah, just keep an eye out if they're looking unwell or not laying.
That's another sign of bird flu in poultry.
It's a really catchy name, isn't it?
But we'll just call it H5N1, just for the purposes of this bonus episode.
So, yeah, like you said, this is a strain of influenza.
It infects more than just birds.
It infects mammals, including, in some cases, humans.
Since this first confirmation, apparently dozens of people have rung up reporting sick or unwell birds.
So this may just be an uptick in people being, I guess, aware that avian influenza has reached our shores, so they're more likely to call in.
But, you know, maybe it's more than that.
Perhaps it's a little bit more widespread than we first thought.
Yes, I think that's fair to say.
Right now, the health risk is not really to humans.
It's really to wildlife.
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