Bird flu has wreaked havoc on the poultry and dairy industries in Georgia and across the US over the past several months. It has also infected dozens of people and resulted in the death of one person in Louisiana.
Dr. John Drake is Regents’ Professor of Ecology in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia as well as the Director of the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases (CEID).
WUGA’s Alexia Ridley sat down with Dr. Drake to discuss bird flu—and why it has resulted in so few human deaths. Here’s that conversation.