Arnab Chatterjee: Everything we know about H5N1 bird flu
August 2024 | 27 min 11 sec
Four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, another virus threatens to reach pandemic potential: the H5N1 bird flu. We sit down with Arnab Chatterjee, vice president of medicinal chemistry at Calibr-Skaggs, who explains the need to invest in the best science to make sure we’re more prepared than we were for the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.
Chatterjee breaks down how likely it is for H5N1 to become transmitted between humans, and the steps we can take now to better protect ourselves in the future.
Episode topics: GBird flu; H5N1; antiviral development; influenza; pandemic preparedness; pandemic flu; universal vaccines; universal flu vaccine
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