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Farms in south of China ever ripe for pandemic

PETRI DISH Small, squalid farms teeming with fetid animals are widely believed to make densely populated areas in Asia cauldrons for lethal new diseases

REUTERS , NANZHENCUN, CHINA

Ideally, the farmer would build some distance between him and his ducks. But he insists monster rats would have a feeding frenzy at night if he lived any further away.

Unless his boss coughed up the cash to erect a duck island in the middle of the pond. "Maybe that would be more sanitary. They would not have to step in their own dung."

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