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Bird flu is on the rise in the UK. Are chickens in the back garden to blame? - The Guardian
6/19/22 at 8:30am
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The risk to humans from the disease, spread by wild birds, is low but a record level of outbreaks this year has researchers worried This may be due to the growing number of people keeping chickens or ducks, Brown said. The Apha consortium was established by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) at breakneck speed after last year’s outbreaks caused alarm and disruption among poultry farmers, and the first case of bird flu infecting a human in the UK. “Over the past 10 years, we’ve had several bird flu events in the UK, but their frequency has been increasing,” Brown said. “The more humans are in contact with birds in an uncontrolled way, the greater is the theoretical risk that people can get infected,” Brown said, adding that the UK has “very good surveillance” of viruses.
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The risk to humans from the disease, spread by wild birds, is low but a record level of outbreaks this year has researchers worried
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