Scientist warns killer virus from Chicken farm could wipe out half of mankind 

In his book “How To Survive a Pandemic”, Dr Michael Greger says that diseases harboured by poultry such as avian flu pose an even greater risk to humans than coronavirus. Mass chicken farming could lead to another pandemic, a scientist claims.

Mass chicken farming is leaving humans vulnerable to a killer virus which could wipe out half of the world’s population. American nutritionist Dr Michael Greger says that diseases harboured by poultry pose an even greater risk to mankind than coronavirus.

Covid-19, which experts believe originated in bats before jumping to humans, has now claimed the lives of 364,000 people as it sweeps across the world. The flu-like virus has now infected nearly 6 million people globally after it first emerged in the city of Wuhan in China at the end of last year.

But Dr Greger, who made the grim prediction in his new book “How To Survive A Pandemic”, says intensive chicken farming could be an even greater threat to the world as we know it.

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The vegan campaigner says that our dependence on meat leaves us extremely vulnerable to new pandemics. “With pandemics explosively spreading a virus from human to human, it’s never a matter of if, but when,” he writes.