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Breeding Grounds for Disease
The world’s three leading authorities—the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the World Organization for Animal Health—held a joint consultation in 2004 to determine the key underlying causes. Four main risk factors for the emergence and spread of these diseases were identified. Bulleted first: “Increasing demand for animal protein.” This has led to what the CDC refers to as “the intensification of food-animal production,” the factor blamed in part for the increasing threat.
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