NEJM March 5, 2025
In this NEJM Outbreaks Update, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by veterinarian and virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka to discuss avian influenza and its current impact on chickens, cows, cats, and humans.
Stephen Morrissey: Welcome to the NEJM Outbreaks update. I’m Stephen Morrissey, Managing Editor of the Journal, and I’m talking with Eric Rubin, Editor-in-Chief, and Lindsey Baden, Deputy Editor. Today we’re joined by Yoshihiro Kawaoka. Yoshi trained as both a veterinarian and a virologist, which made him well placed to study one of the early U.S. outbreaks of avian flu.
Since then, he’s done groundbreaking work in understanding H5N1 influenza and how it’s transmitted between species. He’s received many awards and is a member of the...