Factory farming is a source of pathogens as well. H1N1 bird flu spreads to chickens and to swine.

Factory farms tend to monitor and cull livestock as needed to try to prevent this.

Meat markets like the one where this pandemic is believed to have started? Not so much.

When we're through this thing, there darn well better be treaties on the table that require the reduction and elimination of trade in untested disease-carrying animals.

The point is that there are multiple vectors. A new pathogenic strain of SARS or H1N1 may not be caught in a factory farm either because it isn't detected early enough.

Many have already done that. Now what? I guess we're back to research, huh?

> Many have already done that.

Citation needed

We need all countries that send large numbers of their citizens into the rest of the world via jet airplane to stop the practice of eating bats and bush-meat and other endangered animals.

And chicken (bird flu) and pork (swine flu).