Covid and farm animals: nine pandemics that changed the world

# BSE

# Bird flu

# Cattle

# Farm animals

# Farming

# Food

# Health

# Infectious diseases

# Meat industry

# Medical research

# Rural affairs

# Sars

# Swine flu

Covid-19 has got experts thinking urgently about the risk of diseases passing from farmed animals to humans. We examine the major outbreaks of the past two centuries

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