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I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagi
by gnfargbl 3y ago
I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagion is surely something to be strenuously avoided.
- tantalor 3y agoSure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting, so how would they come in contact with something that could harm humans?
- kleer001 3y agoOh, like raised from the egg kind of situation? I think there still an issue of cross contamination with things that don't grow on humans or objects, but love chickens in the air or incidental dusts.
- saulpw 3y agoclassic paper from 1973: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862013 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862013 "An Outbreak of Common Colds at an Antarctic Base after Seventeen Weeks of Complete Isolation" There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- jwilk 3y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2130424/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2130424/ has the full text.
- teh_klev 3y ago> Sure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting Until one day that security setting breaks down.