How Concerned Should We Be About Bird Flu?

Grand Theft Auto VI is expected to set new records for the video game industry. But will potential billion-dollar sales of the title buoy an entire industry facing years of layoffs and lower returns on investment?On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier takes us in ...  Show more

Ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates steady this week, host Sarah Holder sat down with author and economic commentator Kyla Scanlon to talk about who’s continuing to spend and borrow, who isn’t and what happens when consumer spending doesn’t equal consumer confid ...  Show more

An update on the current bird flu outbreak: it’s still infecting wild birds, mammals and now several farmworkers in the United States. The virus does not appear to be transmitted between humans, but can we prevent further spread? And what are public health officials doing to cont ...  Show more

Today we’re talking about bird flu. It’s infecting flocks of chickens, causing egg prices to rise across the country, plus herds of dairy cattle and people are getting sick too. And all of this is happening amid sweeping changes at U.S. federal health agencies. The ...

Bird flu has been in the headlines for ages, with scientists warning that we could be headed for a pandemic. But we’ve been hearing about this H5N1 virus for so long that it’s kind of starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf. So — what’s really going on with H5N1 bird flu? Ho ...  Show more