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More vegetables, fruits The flu epidemic has invaded 48 states,
overwhelming medical facilities, exhausting vaccine supplies,
and killing 29 children and many seniors. Both the problem and
solution to this disaster hinge on how we relate to animals
raised for food. Indeed, 61 percent of the 1,415 pathogens known
to infect humans originate with animals. The more recent,
contagious, deadly viruses among these include Asian, dengue
fever, Ebola, H5N1 (bird), HIV, SARS, West Nile, and yellow
fever. The pandemic Spanish flu of 1918 killed between 20
million and 50 million people worldwide, and the World Health
Organization predicts more pandemics in the future. Today’s
factory farms are virtual flu factories. Sick, crowded, highly
stressed animals in contact with contaminated feces and urine
provide ideal incubation media for viruses. As these microbes
reach humans, they mutate to defeat t