Bird flu spreading in Bangladesh
Despite great efforts, bird flu is
spreading among poultry in Bangladesh. The avian virus has been found in
three more farms, close to where bird flu broke out much earlier. About
77,000 chickens have been culled so far from 30 farms since March 22 and
approximately 600 workers at the infected farms have been given a local
version of the Tamiflu anti-viral drug as a precaution.
The virus is
known to have infected nearly 300 people in 12 countries since 2003,
killing more than half of them. There’s a lot of concern for the
Bangladesh economy since about four million of its inhabitants are
directly or indirectly associated with poultry farming.
We might be getting closer than we think to a pandemic that could
affect millions of people. The intense confinement of poultry in
industrial farms makes the avian virus transmission easier. The
transition to a plant-based diet would help reduce the number of poultry
in farms and therefore would alleviate human and animal suffering. To
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