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"Reality takes wing over bird flu"

Vested interests mean wild birds are being blamed for the spread of avian flu, argues Dr Leon Bennun in this week's Green Room, whereas responsibility really lies with modern farming. Demands for culling and the destruction of nesting sites threaten, he says, to bring rare species to extinction, but will do nothing to halt the disease.



"Intensively-farmed poultry provide ideal conditions for the evolution of highly lethal forms"