Birds of a Feather: Commercial Producers Play Chicken with Avian Flu

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 12:49 in Health & Medicine

In the late 1980s thousands of chickens died from a cancer caused by a virus known as avian leukosis virus J because they were all descended from a few roosters susceptible to the disease. [More]

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