Could Cultivated Meat Be the Unexpected Weapon Against Antibiotic Resistance Threatening Our Future Health?
That may be moot, though, because we could cultivate all the chicken we want, without guts or lungs.
It’s hard to stress the importance of that American Journal of Public Health editorial. As devastating as COVID-19 has been, it may just be a dress rehearsal for an even greater threat waiting in the wings—the wings of chickens.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading candidate for the next pandemic is a bird flu virus known as H7N9, which is a hundred times deadlier than COVID-19. Instead of 1 in 250 patients dying, H7N9 has killed 40 percent of the people it infects.
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