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The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot

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The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot
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Mink farms are the perfect petri dishes for deadly flu strains to emerge. Yet officials appear to be protecting business interests over human livesCould this be ground zero? Could it be the spot where the next pandemic begins? It’s certainly a candidate, not least because the chain of events that could trigger a plague far worse than Covid-19 looks like the opening sequence of a disaster movie. A really bad disaster movie, in which the levels of carelessness and turpitude defy belief.A report by

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