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Letter: Cloned chickens

Published 8 September 2001

From Mark Simpson

Great. Identical chickens
(18 August, p 3 and
p 4).
That should make deadly
flu epidemics much easier to spread. Without a healthy dose of genetic diversity
all the chickens will be susceptible to the same diseases at the same time.

Birmingham

Issue no. 2307 published 8 September 2001

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