Episode 96 - H5N1 in dairy cows and how MDMA enhances empathy

In this episode we have two interesting news stories from the unrelated worlds of infectious disease and psychedelic research.

What's all the fuss with H5N1 moving into cows and is my milk safe? Plus a breakdown of a fascinating set of experiments aimed at answering whether MDMA increases empathy and why this could influence how doctors prescribe the drug in the future.

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• Podcast: 'Mainstreaming' Psychedelic Drugs to Treat Mental Health - Brad van Paridon for Undark Magazine
• MDMA enhances empathy-like behaviors in mice via 5-HT release in the nucleus accumbens
• The H5N1 Outbreak Is Not a Test Run, It's a Warning Shot
• US to test ground beef in states with bird-flu outbreaks in dairy cows
• U.S. dairy farm worker infected as bird flu spreads to cows in five states
• Scientists call new measures to control bird flu in cows ‘a drop in the bucket’