The risk from H5N1 has never been greater – but making our farms biosecure is harder than it seems

Imagine 40,000 people living next to each other in a shed for six weeks. Your intuition would rightly consider this a public health problem. It’s no surprise then that commercial broilers, chickens raised for their meat under such conditions, are particularly susceptible to pathogens spreading quickly through their ranks. Bacteria that cause food poisoning, such … Read more