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06/22 Scientists have never seen bird flu spread this quickly before
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05/22 Wild birds, farmed birds, and mammals are contracting Avian Flu
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12/20 Go Vegan to Slash COVID-19 Risk
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11/21 Rare swine flu variant found in Manitoba
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11/21 Rise in human bird flu cases in China shows risk of fast-changing variants: experts
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11/21 Bird flu spreads to Poland, hitting farms totalling 650,000 poultry
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11/21 Britain reports bird flu outbreak at poultry unit
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11/21 Bird flu spreads in Europe and Asia
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11/21 Chief vet call after bird flu confirmed in County Monaghan
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06/21 A Vegan Diet Reduces Severe Covid-19 Symptoms Up To 73 Percent, New Study Finds
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06/21 Plant-Based Diet Can Slash Severity Of COVID-19, Finds Major New Study
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07/21 Bovine coronavirus cases in Haryana; scientists find the virus passed on to buffalo calves from camels
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07/21 More than half of the white-tailed deer in Michigan have been infected with coronavirus sparking concerns of a large viral reservoir among wild animals
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07/21 How Many Diseases are Transmitted From Animals to Human?
07/21 African swine fever gets too close for comfort of U.S. pork consumers
07/21 Monkeypox in Dallas: WHO details
07/21 India's First Bird Flu Death Reported at AIIMS-Delhi
07/21 China reports its first human death from rare monkey B virus
07/21 Bird Flu: Over 5,800 deaths of poultry and 58,000 infections recorded so far
07/21 World Zoonoses Day: Learning From Past Mistakes and Prepping for a Healthy Future
07/21 Human, Animal, Environment: One Health For All
06/21 Plant-Based Diet Can Slash Severity Of COVID-19, Finds Major New Study
06/21 A VEGAN DIET REDUCES SEVERE COVID-19 SYMPTOMS UP TO 73 PERCENT, NEW STUDY FINDS
03/21 Why Factory Farming’s Pandemic Risk Is Being Ignored
02/21 The reasons swine flu could return
111/20 Normality got us into the mess of the Covid-19 pandemic – a return to it won’t help us, vaccine or not
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07/20 Bird Flu Outbreak Reported at Farm in Australia’s Victoria State
07/20 World Zoonoses Day: 'We have to act now to avoid even bigger catastrophes'
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07/21 GHANA CULLS THOUSANDS OF CHICKENS, BANS POULTRY MOVEMENT AMID AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK
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07/21 VIETNAM REPORTS FIRST H5N8 AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK IN POULTRY
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06/21 RARE SWINE FLU VARIANT FOUND IN MANITOBA
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​06/21 CHINA REPORTS ITS FIRST HUMAN CASE OF H10N3 BIRD FLU
05/21 DOCTORS INVESTIGATE MYSTERY BRAIN DISEASE IN CANADA
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​04/21 WILL WHAT'S ON OUR PLATES CAUSE THE NEXT PANDEMIC?
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​04/21 WE HAVE TO WAKE UP: FACTORY FARMS ARE BREEDING GROUNDS FOR PANDEMICS
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05/21 COVID-19 QUARANTINE: 3 MINK BELIEVED TO BE POSITIVE AT 3RD BC FARM IMPACTED BY PANDEMIC
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05/21 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA HPAI SITUATION UPDATE
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05/21 WESTERN CAPE GOVERNMENT WARNS ABOUT AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WORCESTER
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05/21 AVIAN FLU NOW DETECTED IN WESTERN CAPE
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04/21 GLOBAL NEWS: MANITOBA REPORTS 2 CASES OF RARE SWINE FLU VARIANTS FOUND IN SEPARATE COMMUNITIES
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04/21 COMER ANIMALES CAUSA PANDEMIAS
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04/21 COVID POSITIVE: GEROGIA AQUARIUM OTTERS
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04/21 BIRD FLU OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN SA, JOBURG FARM QUARANTINED
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03/21 WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT COVID-19 AND A PLANT-BASED DIET
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​03/21 AVIAN FLU IN INDIA BRINGS FORTH ENVIRONMENTAL, ANIMAL AND HUMAN HEALTH LINKAGES
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​03/21 RUSSIA WARNS OF H5N8 BIRD FLU TRANSMISSION
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​03/21 WHO POINTS TO WILDLIFE FARMS IN SOUTHERN CHINA AS LIKELY SOURCE OF PANDEMIC
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​03/21 DOZENS OF MAMMALS INCLUDING HORSES, DOLPHINS AND GOATS COULD CATCH COVID-19, STUDY REVEALS
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03/21 THE SEARCH FOR ANIMALS HARBOURING CORONAVIRUS--AND WHY IT MATTERS
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03/21 COVID-19 ORIGIN MYSTERY: GETTING ON THE MINK FARMING TRAIL
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03/21 WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH MINK COVID?
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03/21 DR MIKE RYAN: THIS PANDEMIC MAY NOT BE THE BIG ONE
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03/21 WHY FACTORY FARMING'S PANDEMIC RISK IS BEING IGNORED
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03/21 POLLUTION FEARS OVER MINK BURIED AFTER COVID CULLING IN DENMARK
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03/21 GLOBAL OBSESSION WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL INCREASE RISK OF DEADLY PANDEMICS IN FUTURE
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03/21 THE COVID-19 QUESTION: HOW DO WE PREVENT FUTURE PANDEMICS?
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02/21 RUSSIA'S BOOMING INTENSIVE ANIMAL FARMING 'A TICKING TIME BOMB' FOR FUTURE VIRUSES
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02/21 RUSSIA REPORTS WORLD'S 1ST CASE OF H5N8 BIRD VIRUS IN HUMANS
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02/21 HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC: 3 WAYS TO STAY HEALTHY, BY DR GREGER
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02/21 MAD COW DISEASE HAS RESURFACED IN CANADA. SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?
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02/21 EMERGING CORONAVIRUS VARIANTS MAY POSE CHALLENGES TO VACCINES
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02/21 AFRICAN SWINE FEVER DECIMATES PHILIPPINE PIG STOCKS
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02/21 SOUTHEAST ASIAN WILD PIGS CONFRONT DEADLY AFRICAN SWINE FEVER EPIDEMIC
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02/21 MINK FARMS A CONTINUING COVID RISK TO HUMANS AND WILDLIFE, WARN EU EXPERTS
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01/21 DAVID SUZUKI AND SCIENTISTS CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO END FUR FARMING IN CANADA​
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01/21 BC SPCA SLAMS PROPOSED CHANGES TO MINK FARM STANDARDS AFTER 2 COVID OUTBREAKS
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01/21 UTAH OFFICIALS ALLEGEDLY FAILED TO DISCLOSE MINK FARM WORKER DIED OF COVID AFTER OUTBREAK
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01/21 EXPERT WARNS OF WORSE TO COME THAN COVID-19 IF CLIMATE CHANGE CONTINUES
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01/21 MAD COW DISEASE CASE REPORTED IN SPAIN
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01/21 SENEGAL REPORTS FIRST H5N1 OUTBREAKS AS AVIAN FLU HITS INDIA, EUROPE
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01/21 SWEDEN SUSPENDS MINK FARMING IN 2021 AND PLANS ASSESSMENT OF ZOONOTIC DISEASE RISK
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01/21 SWEDEN TO CULL 1.3 MILLI0ON CHICKENS AFTER BIRD FLU FOUND AT BIGGEST EGG PRODUCER
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01/21 HUNDREDS OF PELICANS KILLED BY BIRD FLU IN SENEGAL
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01/21 BIRD FLU SPREADS ACROSS INDIA, CULLS UNDER WAY IN SEVERAL STATES
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01/21 THE MINK PANDEMIC IS NO JOKE
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01/21 CTV SASKATOON REPORT ON LIVE ANIMAL TRADE
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12/20 GO VEGAN TO SLASH COVID-19 RISK
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12/20 MINK ON SECOND B.C. FARM TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
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12/20 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE THOUSANDS OF MINKS LIVING IN ROWS OF CAGES ON FARMS IN B.C?
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12/20 WILD MINK TESTS POSITIVE FOR VIRUS
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12/20 DUTCH MINK FARMING INDUSTRY CLOSES DOWN; JUST FOUR FUR FARMS TO GO, MINISTER TELLS MPS
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12/20 OUTBREAK AT FRASER VALLEY MINK FARM RENEWS CALLS TO END FUR TRADE IN CANADA
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11/20 COVID-19, ANIMALS AND ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST
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11/20 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MINKS AND THE CORONAVIRUS
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11/20 RETHINK MINK: DENMARK'S COVID-19 OUTBREAK LINKED TO FUR FARMS....
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11/20 SARS-COV-2 MINK ASSOCIATED WITH VARIANT STRAIN-- DENMARK
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10/20 INTENSIVE ANIMAL AGRICULTURE COULD SPARK THE NEXT PANDEMIC, SAYS NEW REPORT...
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09/20 THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EATING ANIMALS AND VIRAL EPIDEMICS
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08/20 THE MEAT WE EAT IS A PANDEMIC RISK TOO
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03/20 ONE ROOT CAUSE OF PANDEMICS FEW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT
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07/20 WHAT THE COVID-19 CRISIS IS TELLING HUMANITY
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07/20 CORONAVIRUS: WORLD TREATING SYMPTOMS, NOT CAUSE OF PANDEMICS, SAYS UN
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06/20 JANE GOODALL: HUMANITY IS DOOMED IF WE DON'T CHANGE AFTER THIS PANDEMIC
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06/20 CORONAVIRUS: THIS IS NOT THE LAST PANDEMIC
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06/20 JANE GOODALL: HUMANITY IS FINISHED IF IT FAIULS TO ADAPT AFTER COVID-19
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05/20 EXPORT OF IRISH BEEF TO CHINA TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED DUE TO CASE OF ATYPICAL 'BSE'
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04/20 FORSCHERIN GIBT MENSCHEN SCHULD AN PANDEMIE
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03/20 YORK REGION VEGANS REFLECT: COVID-19 MIGHT NOT BE THE LAST "WAKE-UP CALL"
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03/20 CORONAVIRUS SHOULD MAKE YOU RECONSIDER EATING MEAT
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03/20 A PALATE FOR PESTILENCE: OMINOUS LINKS BETWEEN COVID-19 AND INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL FARMING
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05/20 SCIENTISTS SAY AN APOCALYPTIC BIRD FLU COULD WIPE OUT HALF OF HUMANITY
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05/20 PREVENTING ANOTHER PANDEMIC MIGHT BE AS SIMPLE AS TRYING ALTERNATIVE MEAT
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05/20 SWINE FLU ANCESTOR BORN ON US FACTORY FARMS
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04/20 ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION BROUGHT US COVID-19. WHAT IT BRINGS NEXT COULD BE FAR WORSE
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03/20 ONE ROOT CAUSE OF PANDEMICS FEW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT
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03/20 WE NEED TO RETHINK OUR FOOD SYSTEM TO PREVENT THE NEXT PANDEMIC
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2006 CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS AS AMPLIFIERS OF INFLUENZA
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01/04 The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications
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04/18 Bats, Coronaviruses, and Deforestation: Toward the Emergence of Novel Infectious Diseases?
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03/21 What to know about COVID-19 and a plant-based diet
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06/21 CDC Reports Fifth U.S. Human Infection with a Variant Flu Virus for 2021
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06/21 H1N1 Influenza
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05/21 A Public Health Ethics Case for Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Risk in Food Production
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10/20 Swine coronavirus replicates in human cells
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06/20 Preventing the next pandemic - Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission
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01/04 The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications