In the midst of the deadliest outbreak of avian flu in seven years, experts explain why industrial egg and chicken farms create the ideal conditions for the EA H5N1 virus to “spread like wildfire.”

We’re in the midst of the largest-ever outbreak in North America.
But it’s not COVID-19. And it’s not monkeypox.
It’s avian influenza EA H5N1.
This highly pathogenic virus, news outlets across the U.S. and around the world report, is the deadliest seen in domestic birds in the last seven years in America — and may well be the worst ever documented in wild birds.