Chook Me!

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Summary: Kuyek says the spread of industrial poultry production and trade networks have created ideal conditions for the emergence and transmission of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu Some poultry operations have capacities exceeding one million chickens Photo by Larry Rana courtesy U S Department of Agriculture Once inside densely populated factory farms viruses

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