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If you’re easing back into work after the holidays, your calendar has likely been full of catch-ups, debriefs and other meetings designed to get everyone on the same page for 2023. Unless you work at Shopify.The Ottawa-based tech…

Nearly 50million birds have been culled in US as one of the worst bird flu outbreaks ever seen continues - and experts fear it could be transmitted to humans.Official figures from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that…

What is it? Bird flu is the source of all human flus, as far as we know.It often passes through another animal, such as a pig, in the process of mutating and adapting to infect us.Wild birds are carriers, especially through migration.As…

The UK is experiencing its largest ever outbreak of avian flu, Environment Secretary George Eustice has warned.Thousands of farming birds have been culled across the country and an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone was declared…

Hundreds of healthy pigs have been culled after a nationwide shortage of abattoir workers left farms overcrowded with animals that could not be sent for slaughter.The National Pig Association (NPA) said at least 600 swine had…