The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot
A report by the investigative news service ProPublica reveals that bird flu has been raging in a mink farm in Utah since August, and it appears next to nothing has been done by public officials.
Key points
- This is for three reasons: mink are fed on the offcuts of chickens, cows and other farm animals, in….
- Mink farms are the perfect petri dishes for deadly flu strains to emerge.
- Yet officials appear to be protecting business interests over human lives Could this be ground zero?
In 2023, I warned in the Guardian that mink farms could scarcely be better designed to generate lethal plagues.
It’s certainly a candidate, not least because the chain of events that could trigger a plague far worse than Covid-19 looks like the opening sequence of a disaster movie.
Additional details
- A really bad disaster movie, in which the levels of carelessness and turpitude defy belief.
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