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Updating the fight against infectious diseases

Medical researchers are shifting their attention to bird flu this season.
by Tony Perkins

Arizona Science 1/31/25 thumb hero Dr. Al Obaidi of the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona and image of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona and CDC

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This episode is supported by the The Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
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Medical researchers are shifting their attention to bird flu this season. University of Arizona professor Mohaned Al-Obaidi discusses how the H5N1 strain has created a challenge for scientists fighting the spread of the emerging virus.

Mohanned Al-Obaidi spoke with Leslie Tolbert, Ph. D. Regent’s professor emerita in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona.

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