Report: Avian Flu - Time to shut the intensive poultry 'flu factories'?

Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP

The Role of Intensive Poultry Farming and International Trade in the Spread of Avian Flu

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“There is now growing concern that the whirlwind spread of avian flu in some parts of the world is not entirely governed by nature, but by the human activities of commerce and trade. …Despite extensive testing of wild birds for the disease, scientists have only rarely identified live birds carrying bird flu in a highly pathogenic form, suggesting these birds are not efficient vectors of the virus…Far more likely to be perpetuating the spread of the virus is the movement of poultry, poultry products, or infected material from poultry farms eg animal feed and manure. But this mode of transmission has been down-played by international agencies, who admit that migratory birds are an easy target since nobody is to blame.”...

Source: Avian Flu - Time to shut the intensive poultry 'flu factories'?

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