Bird flu ‘an urgent warning to move away from factory farming’

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Experts claim deadly spillovers of disease between livestock and wildlife are increasing with the growth in intensive methods

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/06/bird-flu-an-urgent-warning-to-move-away-from-factory-farming

National Trust rangers clear dead birds from Staple Island
Dead birds being cleared from Staple Island, off Northumberland, where bird flu is devastating one of the UK’s most important seabird colonies, July 2022.Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

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John VidalThu 6 Oct 2022 14.00 EDT

Catastrophic declines in the number of birds and other wildlife are likely if countries do not act urgently to change the way animals are farmed, wildlife health scientists have warned.

The unprecedented die-off of seabirds from highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) being witnessed in breeding colonies across Europe, North America and Africa has been traced back to a commercial goose farm in southern China where a relatively mild bird disease mutated into a killer in 1996.

After spilling into wild bird populations in 2007, HPAI has spread around the…

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