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We warned you!
you may remember our last year ’ s shocking exposure of Field Farm (Lincolnshire), and it’s Quack! duck Eggs despite supplying most of the big supermarkets, conditions were abysmal, cruel and filthy Our video ended with a warning that this place posed a threat to human and animal health it comes as no surprise that Field Farm has had an outbreak of bird flu, all the animals at the farm have been culled and a restriction order has been issued
Again it’s no surprise to find that health chiefs have been running simulated emergency drills so they are ready to act should the bird flu virus jump from bird to human Chief veterinary officer, dr Christine Middlemiss, told the Daily Telegraph: “Because this is a zoonotic disease, it has the potential to infect people. We exercise frequently with the UK Health Security Agency and others for those scenarios happening.” Where the H5N1 strain passes to humans, the death rate has been 50 per cent The ‘Eurasian’ H5N1, that infected Field Farm and hundreds of other UK farms in 2022, have so far infected one person in the UK but that could change
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