Not a Doctor

  • Did bird flu really drive up egg prices?

    Bird flu is sweeping through egg-laying chickens in the United States at an unprecedented rate. So far in 2025, 30 million layers, as they’re known, have been culled, close to the 38 million killed throughout all of last year. That means nearly 10 percent of our annual number of egg-layers have been wiped out. But as I report…

    Melody Schreiber

  • Why experts think we’ll have another flu pandemic

    And how climate change and large-scale industrial agricultural amplify outbreaks. Scientists often debate where the next pandemic will come from and what virus will cause it, but they tend to agree on one thing: At some point, the world will see another flu pandemic, I reported recently for Sierra Magazine. “If you go back in…

    Melody Schreiber

  • Is bird flu evolving to make us sicker?

    How to think about bird flu severity and viral evolution.

    Melody Schreiber