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[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] The participants rejected any suggestion of trying to stop the spread of HPA1 by killing wild birds. “Destruction of wild bird habitats or indiscriminate hunting of wildlife is scientifically and ethically unjustified as response,” they said in the final document.
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[Girlscientist.blogspot.com] Living the Scientific Life (The Archives): Avian Influenza and the ...: Further, avian eradication programs can have dramatic, unanticipated and tragic consequences, as illustrated by China’s Great Leap Forward Program in the late 1950s. This misguided program effectively declared war on birds by legitimizing the extensive slaughter of sparrows and crows, which led to the failure of rice crops and triggered widespread famine because these birds actually controlled crop pests.
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