Source: Kevin Folta, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 4/7/22


The bulldozer belches black smoke into the air, an engine revving with extra effort to push a hill of feathered corpses into a pit. A new contagion is gaining traction in nested localities across America, as thousands of commercial chickens and turkeys are being lost to a new strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).  According to experts, the US is facing the deadliest bird flu outbreak in 7 years. More than 23 million chickens and turkeys have already been killed. Zoos across America are hiding birds, behind protected plate glass in some cases. The good news is that a technology to arrest the spread has been developed.

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