Are We At Risk Of Another Pandemic?

我们是否面临再次爆发大流行的风险?

What A Day

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2025-03-13

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It’s a rough time for people who worry about infectious diseases. A new study shows bird flu is more widespread in U.S. cows than previously thought. Around 250 Americans have been infected with measles, including two people who died. And globally, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is struggling to contain a Mpox outbreak, Uganda is battling Ebola, Tanzania is fighting Marburg, and Lassa fever is spreading in East Africa. In the face of all that, the Trump administration has gutted funding for programs that help protect Americans from these types of diseases. Anne Rimoin, an epidemiology professor at UCLA and director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health, talks about what’s worrying her.
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  • It's Thursday, March 13th.

  • I'm Jane Coastin and this is what a Day.

  • The show that is celebrating the return of March Madness by getting very stressed out about sports

  • while definitely not watching sports at work,

  • a thing you should also definitely not do.

  • Nope, no sports at work on today's show.

  • Senate Democrats have their own solution to keep the government open.

  • And President Donald Trump complains about former president's policies

  • to the prime minister of Ireland.

  • But let's start with bird flu,

  • which has sickened dozens of people in the US as it continues to spread among animals.

  • And measles as new cases keep showing up.

  • Fun.

  • The Department of Agriculture says eggs are about double the price from January of 2024.

  • An ongoing bird flu outbreak is blamed as the main culprit.

  • This morning, new numbers show the measles virus spreading like wildfire.

  • Texas, the center of the worst outbreak, now up to 223 cases,

  • nearly double that from last month in Nearby New Mexico,

  • 33 cases, more than triple the number from last week.

  • Earlier this week, a new study found that bird flu is way more prevalent in cows than we thought,