Swine Flu, CAFOs – with Updates
Updates at the bottom.
Closer to confirming the flu’s origin in US Hog Farms. Why not – we started the CAFO model.
And from one of the articles referenced in that one …
H3N2 — the letters denote specific gene variants that code for replication-enhancing enzymes — is the name of a hybrid first identified in North Carolina in 1998, the tail end of a decade which saw the state’s hog production rise from two million to 10 million, even as the number of farms dropped. H3N2 originated in a relatively benign swine flu strain first identified in 1918, but had absorbed new genes from bird and human flus.
My family’s farm was literally right next to a chicken CAFO. Ok, that’s not so much interesting as it his heavy. This bug was originally thought to be a mutant version of swine/avian flu. All our employees were Mexican and traveled back and forth from our place to wherever they lived in Mexico to see their families. What the hell, for all I know this whole thing could have started at our farm. What a thought. Not that we’re the only hog farm that is right next to a chicken farm, whose employees are mostly Mexican migrant workers … but still. It started somewhere and the nature of CAFOs make them bug evolving nightmares.
This model is wrong … on so many levels.
Traced to North Carolina (5/5)
