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Russia’s Booming Intensive Animal Farming ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’ for Future Viruses Following the discovery of the first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans, activists and virologists fear the country’s large-scale farms will become “petri dishes.” Russia s poultry production is rising. Yegor Aleyev / TASS As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s discovery of the world’s first cases of transmission of bird flu from animals to humans is prompting experts to warn that the country’s increasing large-scale industrial meat production could create conditions for future viruses to thrive. While the H5N8 strain of avian flu has been ravaging the global poultry industry for decades, with Germany and other European countries seeing their last major outbreak in the winter of 2016, Russia has become a hub for this strain and other bird flu viruses as it ramps up animal farming in the wake of bans ....