SENCER Model Courses: The Chicken (2014), Climate Change Science and Economics (2014), Emerging Infectious Diseases (2015)
“What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China, and Climate Change”
The growing scale of the poultry industry in Asia that increases the probability that new avian influenza viruses will emerge, and increasing temperatures affects the new distributions of birds and their pathogens, as historically segregated species are coming into novel kinds of contact.
Artwork Credit: Jason Holley/New York Times