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Anti-whistleblower “ag-gag” laws help global pandemics grow and spread

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A teen in British Columbia recently became critically ill after becoming infected with H5N1. H5N1 is a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu. Outbreaks of avian influenza (bird flu) in livestock and flocks on industrial-scale chicken and dairy farms—so-called factory farms—in the United States are raising alarm bells for public health […]