The illness is sort of inconceivable to transmit and signs are gentle. Why cull? Meals management? Worry-mongering? Vaccine-mongering? Harbinger of a future lab-designed virus?

From right this moment’s Yahoo News:

An outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza that began in 2021 has change into the most important fowl flu outbreak in historical past, each within the U.S. and worldwide. Within the U.S. the virus has led to the destruction of tens of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys, geese and geese, and has killed hundreds of untamed birds.

Right here is how bizarrely this problem was dealt with. From a report revealed final April within the Guardian:

Greater than 22 million birds have been killed in an try and comprise the outbreak – the bulk in Iowa, the US’s largest producer of eggs. The slaughter of 5.3m hens at Rembrandt is the most important culling at any manufacturing facility farm within the nation.

The article goes on to say the billionaire proprietor of the plant fired virtually all the employees instantly after they’d killed and disposed of 5 million chickens, after one hen examined optimistic for H5N1 “fowl flu.”