#farming pathogens

A blog about disease in a world of our own making. Following agriculture, infectious disease, evolution, ecological resilience, dialectical biology, and the practice of science. -->https://farmingpathogens.wordpress.com/

Big Poultry is doing its very worst trying to stick wild waterfowl for the outbreaks of all those new H5Nx influenzas: H5N1, H5N2, H5N3, H5N6, H5N8, and H5N9. But science the industry didn't buy--which like winter in an age of climate change is taking on a melancholic beauty--is showing by disparate analyses that the new flus are adapting to industrial production. My latest post.

"Turkeys are to Minnesota what water is to Los Angeles. Any disruption in its model of development and the bodies to be paid for are more than in poultry. More than merely a united face, one caught the whiff here of government, academia, and industry in the business of defending the indefensible together whatever the facts. The room was heady with a mix of the corruption and the fear of those who knew better. Many a bright mind talking about an outbreak without talking about it."