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How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)

How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)

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Inside a High-Security Lab Creating and Testing Bird Flu Vaccines

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Creating a bird flu vaccine requires several layers of
bioprotective clothing and typically a whole lot of eggs. H5N1
avian influenza infections have gone from flocks of chickens to
herds of cattle and humans. Scientists at the Texas Biomedical
Research Institute are taking their best guess at the strains of
the virus that could spread and are creating critical vaccine
candidates. Multimedia journalist and Scientific American
multimedia intern Naeem Amarsy suited up and went to San Antonio,
Tex., to visit a “biosafety level three” (BSL-3) lab at the
institute. This is the third and final episode of our series
about bird flu. You can listen to episode one:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-h5n1-went-from-an-illness-in-wild-birds-to-a-global-pandemic-threat/
And episode two:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-bird-flu-went-from-devastating-poultry-farms-to-infecting-dairy-herds/
And read more of our health coverage:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/health/ E-mail us at
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Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff
DelViscio. This episode was hosted and reported by Naeem Amarsy.
This series was reported and produced by Lauren Young, Meghan
Bartels, Fonda Mwangi and Jeff DelViscio. Special thanks to Laura
Petersen and Catie Corcoran at the Texas Biomedical Research
Institute, Jane Deng and Elizabeth Dowling at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Kimberly Lau, Dean Visser and Jeanna
Bryner at Scientific American. Our show is edited by Alex Sugiura
with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme
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