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Disease Pandemics and the Population Factor

It’s been only a few years since the world exited the height of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but we’re now facing a potentially deadlier new pandemic threat. This threat stems from a virus that health professionals have been monitoring for two decades: H5N1, more commonly known as bird flu or avian influenza. Once mostly the bane of chicken farmers, H5N1 has now infected domesticated animals and wild species worldwide. It’s now jumping from dairy cows to humans. Each day the threat grows worse. As with COVID-19, bird flu infections could quickly escalate into a pandemic, facilitated by our over-populated world.

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Migrant Labor and US Agriculture

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version.  The Second in a three-part series.An NPG Forum Paperby Dr. Philip MartinApril 2024 The US Department of Labor has a National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS) that interviews 1,500 to 3,000 workers employed on US crop farms each year and is the best-known source of farm  worker data.1 The NAWS finds that 70 …

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