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A look at the intensive, industrial-scale livestock operations ?fertile incubation space for pathogen mutations such as the H1N1 2009 flu.
As health officials try to guess where the so-called swine flu will show up next, other researchers are trying to track the H1N1 virus to its origins. And a number of experts suspect large-scale factory farms. Host Jeff Young talks with Johns Hopkins Public Health Professor Ellen Silbergeld who says crowded, filthy conditions at factory farms could speed the mutation and
transfer of viruses from pigs to people.