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  Tom- thank you (and thank you GRIST) for continuing the dialogue and investigations around the linkage between CAFOs and this new strain of flu. The Columbia Journalism Review gave you guys props and noted that the conversation about the role of industrial hog farms started at GRIST by your initial article earlier this week and is occurring (at least superficially) in mainstream media sources too.

  I am an environemental health scientist so I appreciate you science-based approach. Please continue to keep us updated on the origins of this flu even after the flashy headlines are gone. Maybe you could also write a piece about the 1998 outbreak in hog farms to educate and refresh the readers (especially the younger ones) which originated in North Carolina, the land of more pigs than people.

  And in this dialogue, let us not forget about the largely poor, communities of color living adjacent to U.S. industrial hog farms who have been trying to warn us of the public health repercurssions of these operations for years (if not decades)

  KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

   

   

   

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