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RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry (www.livescience.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's less that they evolve and more that we just select the already resistant chickens.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but it could take several generations of chickens until “resistant” evolves into being immune enough to not lose half the flock every time. And in the mean time since human farmers will have to be tending to the chickens in some way, there always a risk of the virus jumping to humans.

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