• Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place | George Monbiot

    Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place | George Monbiot
    Bird flu is a mass killer, and mink farms are perfect for infection and transmission. They are a grave threat and must be bannedIf you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? You’d do well to start with a bird flu. Bird flus are responsible for all the known flu pandemics: the great influenza that started more than a century ago, “Asian flu”, “Hong Kong flu” and “Russian flu”, which killed

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