The Threat of Bird Flu Video Transcript

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ANNOUNCER: The interventions include providing protective equipment to poultry workers and educating them to better recognize sick flocks. There is also close monitoring of bird shipments from country to country. On the scientific front, there's research into diagnosis, medical treatment and experimental vaccines. Whether the currently-spreading avian flu becomes a major health threat to humans remains unknown, but many scientists believe advances in medicine plus quick action may offer good protection.

MIKE MAGEE, MD: If H5N1 began in an area, the best thing that we could do is to shut that area down, to isolate that area, to massively treat the population within that area and then have very, very careful surveillance of everyone else. That's the way you protect yourself in a modern, mobile world.

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