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Backyard bird feeding could be a bird flu ‘superspreader’. An expert explains

By Darryl Jones, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University

Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes. Research reveals about half of Australian households feed wild birds, with many people doing so daily.

However, this practice could act as a superspreader event – where a disease infects an unusually high number of people or animals – of the H5N1 virus. This deadly…

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