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DESCRIPTION: Does a cancer-causing herpes virus in chickens pose a public health threat?
Other viruses may actually play a role in the obesity epidemic. See, for example, Infectobesity: Adenovirus 36 and Childhood Obesity (
Other potential poultry microbiological hazards include:
• Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? (
• Avoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections (
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (
• Foster Farms Responds to Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks (
• Poultry Exposure and Neurological Disease (
• Poultry and Paralysis (
Potential poultry chemical hazards include:
• Phosphate Additives in Chicken (
• Illegal Drugs in Chicken Feathers (
• Chicken Consumption and the Feminization of Male Genitalia (
• California Children Are Contaminated (
• How Many Cancers Have Been Caused in Arsenic-Laced Chicken? (
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