Hannah Rosen

It's become normal to hear just, you know, slight murmurings about bird flu in the news and then to move on with your day. We didn't have that luxury with COVID. It was forced upon everyone. Everyone's lives changed radically and almost instantaneously.

It's become normal to hear just, you know, slight murmurings about bird flu in the news and then to move on with your day. We didn't have that luxury with COVID. It was forced upon everyone. Everyone's lives changed radically and almost instantaneously.

And now there's just this general sense of, oh, a lot of stuff is wrong, but I don't have anything to worry about yet when this is exactly the time to be doing something about it so things don't get catastrophically worse. And I think, you know, from the federal government side, there absolutely has not been enough of a response. And I don't know how much of that is...

And now there's just this general sense of, oh, a lot of stuff is wrong, but I don't have anything to worry about yet when this is exactly the time to be doing something about it so things don't get catastrophically worse. And I think, you know, from the federal government side, there absolutely has not been enough of a response. And I don't know how much of that is...

And now there's just this general sense of, oh, a lot of stuff is wrong, but I don't have anything to worry about yet when this is exactly the time to be doing something about it so things don't get catastrophically worse. And I think, you know, from the federal government side, there absolutely has not been enough of a response. And I don't know how much of that is...

Issues with resources being drained from COVID and that still being an ongoing threat. You know, changes in leadership that are introducing maybe ideological barriers to being more prepared. And also, you know, maybe some sense of, well, we don't want to...

Issues with resources being drained from COVID and that still being an ongoing threat. You know, changes in leadership that are introducing maybe ideological barriers to being more prepared. And also, you know, maybe some sense of, well, we don't want to...

Issues with resources being drained from COVID and that still being an ongoing threat. You know, changes in leadership that are introducing maybe ideological barriers to being more prepared. And also, you know, maybe some sense of, well, we don't want to...

over alarm people and be accused of overblowing this threat it's a really tough balance to strike and i certainly feel for the people who are trying to communicate those messages but i would not argue that the national response has been adequate yeah okay so we are journalists and it's our job to help inform people so why don't we try and bridge the gap as best we can what is bird flu

over alarm people and be accused of overblowing this threat it's a really tough balance to strike and i certainly feel for the people who are trying to communicate those messages but i would not argue that the national response has been adequate yeah okay so we are journalists and it's our job to help inform people so why don't we try and bridge the gap as best we can what is bird flu

over alarm people and be accused of overblowing this threat it's a really tough balance to strike and i certainly feel for the people who are trying to communicate those messages but i would not argue that the national response has been adequate yeah okay so we are journalists and it's our job to help inform people so why don't we try and bridge the gap as best we can what is bird flu

So it is a flu that has originated as far as we can tell in birds. So hence the name bird flu. That's kind of how these things are named. And, you know, it is a flu virus. So it is related to the seasonal flus that pass through our population every year.

So it is a flu that has originated as far as we can tell in birds. So hence the name bird flu. That's kind of how these things are named. And, you know, it is a flu virus. So it is related to the seasonal flus that pass through our population every year.

So it is a flu that has originated as far as we can tell in birds. So hence the name bird flu. That's kind of how these things are named. And, you know, it is a flu virus. So it is related to the seasonal flus that pass through our population every year.

But because this is primarily a version of the flu that is really well adapted to birds and that's where it spent most of its time evolving, it is not yet the kind of flu that is going to pass really easily from person to person. But the reason that this is scary is we have seen this particular version of bird flu jump into mammals, including mammals that interface a lot with humans, like i.e.

But because this is primarily a version of the flu that is really well adapted to birds and that's where it spent most of its time evolving, it is not yet the kind of flu that is going to pass really easily from person to person. But the reason that this is scary is we have seen this particular version of bird flu jump into mammals, including mammals that interface a lot with humans, like i.e.

But because this is primarily a version of the flu that is really well adapted to birds and that's where it spent most of its time evolving, it is not yet the kind of flu that is going to pass really easily from person to person. But the reason that this is scary is we have seen this particular version of bird flu jump into mammals, including mammals that interface a lot with humans, like i.e.

dairy cows. And the fact that this virus is making those moves, jumping across those species barriers, like huge species barriers. I'm not talking, you know... duck to pigeon, I'm talking birds to mammals, that's a massive jump in terms of biology and the type of host that this virus can manage to infect and spread between.

dairy cows. And the fact that this virus is making those moves, jumping across those species barriers, like huge species barriers. I'm not talking, you know... duck to pigeon, I'm talking birds to mammals, that's a massive jump in terms of biology and the type of host that this virus can manage to infect and spread between.

dairy cows. And the fact that this virus is making those moves, jumping across those species barriers, like huge species barriers. I'm not talking, you know... duck to pigeon, I'm talking birds to mammals, that's a massive jump in terms of biology and the type of host that this virus can manage to infect and spread between.