Mink farms are perfect petri dishes for deadly virus strains to emerge. Officials appear to be protecting business interests rather than human lives.
Utah's state veterinarian said that the outbreak was ‘devastating’ But she wasn’ttalking about public health, she was talking about the farmer. ‘This is his life's work that he's seeing be destroyed,’ she said.
Robert F Kennedy Jr has argued that chicken farmers should consider letting bird flu run through the flock. It's similar to the " let the virus rip " attitudes of the Trump and Johnson governments. Kennedy has also claimed that H5N1 variant ‘doesn’t seem to hurt wild birds’
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