An article written by The Humane Society of the United States' expert in avian influenza was recently published in Critical Reviews in Microbiology, a prestigious scientific journal which showcased his work highlighting factory farming practices as a primary cause of several infectious diseases that pose great threats to public health.
In his article, Dr. Michael Greger, The HSUS' director of public health and animal agriculture and author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, details how factory farming has created the conditions ripe for the emergence of infectious diseases, including highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that a lethal strain of avian influenza could potentially trigger a pandemic resulting in millions of deaths in the United States alone.
"The overcrowded confinement, immunity-crippling stress, lack of adequate ventilation and sunlight and grossly unhygienic conditions may turn factory farms into breeding grounds for disease," Dr. Greger said. "Factory farms are a public health menace."
Entitled, "The Human/Animal Interface: Emergence and Resurgence of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases" the article was published in the fourth-quarter issue in the peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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