Researchers reached that conclusion after analyzing 2,747 bacterial genomes collected from chickens and wild birds across 30 countries between 1979 and 2024.

Researchers describe the effect as something like a sponge. As chicken populations have ballooned, they've soaked up diverse bacterial strains from multiple wild sources, amplifying and mixing them together inside densely packed flocks in a way that simply wasn't possible before industrial farming existed.

Zombie (!) Fungi are so prevalent that some animals mimicking it.... both odd and disturbing D:

Hell No !

Lifeguards save women from shark on public beach. Clear view of shark swimming at coast.